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Beyond the "work requirements" sham

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No taxes? It all burns down

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Trump's anti-populist budget

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Trump's zero-tolerance failure

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Happy vs. high achieving

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Minimum wage saves lives

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GOP's poverty scam

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GOP's poverty proposal

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The GOP poverty PR push

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Ryan's welfare myth demolished

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Paul Krugman: GOP desire to strangle the welfare state with austerity born of "an emotional prejudice"

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These guys want to gut America

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The Right's big welfare lie

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Huck's apocalyptic "pledge"

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The callous party

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Mark Warner's sick centrism

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Rick Santorum's creepy gift

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Paul Ryan's liberal secret

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Gregory punts on poverty

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Paul Ryan's "insult" strategy

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