Public Policy
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It is personal in the empty refrigerator someone quietly closes before the children wake up. It is personal in the mother choosing between gas money and groceries, in the father working two jobs and still falling behind, in the grandmother stretching medication because the rent is due. Poverty lives in stress, shame, exhaustion, and the…
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By: Elizabeth Havard *Opinion | April 21, 2026* Every generation inherits a story about poverty, and ours goes something like this: if you work hard enough, long enough, and smart enough, you will not be poor. It is a clean and comforting narrative. It is also, for millions of Americans, dangerously incomplete. The myth of…
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