The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost … - Barbara Ehrenreich

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The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

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