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Donald Trump (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump's zero-tolerance failure

Simon Maloy
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Happy vs. high achieving

Mihal Greener
Demonstrators at a protest for a $15-an-hour nationwide minimum wage in Chicago, April 14, 2016. (Reuters/Jim Young)

Minimum wage saves lives

Simon Maloy
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

GOP's poverty scam

Simon Maloy
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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 19, 2016, file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Ryan said Monday, May 9, 2016, that he'd step down as co-chairman of the Republican National Convention if presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump asked him to. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

GOP's poverty proposal

Simon Maloy
In this Dec. 1, 2015 photo, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., departs a news conference following a GOP strategy session at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. From left are Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., chair of the Republican Conference, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Speaker Ryan, and Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La. After months where tea party lawmakers provoked crisis and unrest in Congress, even driving out a speaker, GOP leaders have turned to the business of governing, pushing forward a series of bills destined to get a presidential signature. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

The GOP poverty PR push

Simon Maloy
Paul Ryan (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Ryan's welfare myth demolished

Simon Maloy
Paul Krugman (Reuters/Brendan Mcdermid)

Scott Eric Kaufman
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Scott Walker, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee (Reuters/Aaron Josefczyk)

These guys want to gut America

Paul Rosenberg
Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, Mike Huckabee, Bill O'Reilly (Fox News)

The Right's big welfare lie

Simon Maloy
(AP/Susan Walsh)

Huck's apocalyptic "pledge"

Simon Maloy
Pat Roberts (AP/Charlie Riedel)

The callous party

Luke Brinker
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Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) (John Rohrbach)

Mark Warner's sick centrism

Luke Brinker
Rick Santorum (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Rick Santorum's creepy gift

Katie McDonough
(Reuters/Matt Sullivan)

Paul Ryan's liberal secret

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

Gregory punts on poverty

Simon Maloy
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Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan's "insult" strategy

Simon Maloy
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Jose Luis Magaua)

Sarah Gray
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Welcome to poverty

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Alex Seitz-Wald
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Alan Simpson, Ed Rendell, Erskine Bowles of Fix the Debt (AP/Alex Brandon/Carolyn Kaster/Alex Brandon)

Can Social Security be saved?

Michael Lind
NRCC Chairman Rep. Greg Walden on CNN on April 9, 2013

Alex Seitz-Wald
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

It's no "grand bargain"!

Michael Lind
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