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Topic: Upward Mobility

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Tiny houses have a dark side

Megan Carras - The Conversation
Frederick Douglass; D. Watkins; Thomas Jefferson (Wikimedia/Peter Cooper/Salon)

1st real American in my family

D. Watkins
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Sean McElwee
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Warren on work and opportunity

Luke Brinker
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GOP's minimum wage disaster

Luke Brinker
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Lynn Stuart Parramore - Alternet

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