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“Poverty isn't simply the condition of not having enough money. It's the condition of not having enough choice, and being taken advantage of because of that. When we ignore the role that exploitation plays in trapping people in poverty, we end up designing policy that is weak at best and ineffective at worst.”

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Poverty, by America

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