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Old-Age Poverty

Why America Has Been So Stingy In Fighting Child Poverty

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bubmag
February 22, 2022
Old-Age Poverty

A pandemic, a pregnancy, and perseverance

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bubmag
June 12, 2020
Old-Age Poverty

Challenging assumptions

Amity Shlaes graduated from Yale, became a journalist, and is now a Forbes columnist and the author of five books, including The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and her latest, Great Society, which spotlights the cracks in Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and Richard Nixon’s attempts…
bubmag
June 11, 2020
Old-Age Poverty

Protests and Plague in the Lone Star State

Interstate 35 is a six-lane scar that runs through the middle of Austin. To the south, the highway runs all the way down to the Mexican border. To the North, it zig-zags up to Minneapolis, where, on May 25th, Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, handcuffed and asphyxiated a black…
bubmag
June 3, 2020