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Topic: safety net

Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What do voters want? $3.5T, apparently

Brett Bachman
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Nazi-era public charge clause revived

Laurel Leff - The Conversation
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

Land's End (Getty/tsafreer)

630-mile hike with nothing left to lose

Erin Keane
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In this Monday, March 27, 2017 photo Sunny Larson, left, and Zak McCutcheon pick produce while gathering provisions to take home at the Augusta Food Bank in Augusta, Maine. Republican Gov. Paul LePage says his call to ban the use of food stamps for soda and candy is backed by science and a desire to reduce obesity and diabetes in the nation's oldest state. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

America has no social safety net

Jamila Michener - The Conversation
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US is stingier than rest of the world

Joya Misra - The Conversation
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The obscene wealth of the richest

Paul Buchheit - Alternet
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP myths about the poor

Michele Gilman - The Conversation
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This Thursday, May 12, 2016 photo shows the glass-enclosed atrium at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta. The design preserves the library's monumental marble stair case and allows more sunlight into the building, while also reducing the amount of noise inside. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) (AP)

Libraries as shelters

Grace Morris - The Conversation
FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2016, file photo, Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat leaves a House Republican leadership meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans are laying the groundwork for a fresh effort to overhaul the nation's food stamp program during Donald Trump’s presidency, with the possibility of new work and eligibility requirements for millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) (AP)

rose's story

Kristin Seefeldt - The Conversation
(AP/Allen Breed)

The bigotry of welfare cuts

Sanford Schram - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

the end of the safety net

David Campbell, Kristina Lambright - The Conversation
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President Donald Trump looks up after signing the final of three executive orders, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump's war on Medicaid

Simon Maloy
(AP/Reuters/Yuri Gripas/Photo montage by Salon)

Economy does better under Dems

Sean McElwee
Scott Walker (Jeffrey Malet, maletphoto.com)

GOP plot to destroy the poor

Heather Digby Parton
Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Malet/maletphoto.com/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

It's about racism, stupid!

Sean McElwee
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A still from "Golden Girls" (ABC)

Bailey Childers
Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Jacquelyn Martin/Photo montage by Salon)

Dems' scary electoral future

Sean McElwee
Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in "Kramer vs. Kramer" (Columbia Pictures)

In defense of divorce

Sean McElwee
(Reuters/Jim Bourg/Jonathan Ernst/<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-130111p1.html'>Orhan Cam</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Photo montage by Salon)

A great society—for white guys

Sean McElwee
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(AP/David Goldman)

Mitt's poverty pipe dream

Simon Maloy
Mitt Romney (AP)

Mitt's ridiculous reinvention

Luke Brinker
(AP/Charles Dharapak)

Pelosi trolls Boehner

Luke Brinker
Paul Ryan on "Meet the Press," July 27, 2014. (NBC News)

Gregory punts on poverty

Simon Maloy
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