The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Ideas - Roll Call

The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Ideas

By Madison Powers and CQ Staff

Posted January 30, 2008 at 1:00am

led to his withdrawal
eight state poverty tour,
Robert F. Kennedy’s similar tour
anxiety over their own economic uncertainty
Americans are divided
“end welfare as we know it,”
Madison Powers is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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