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Are the Candidates Talking Enough About Poverty?

By QR Blog Editor
Jun 5, 2012
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Writing for The Huffington Post. Jeffrey P. Colin argues:

"With election campaigning in full swing now, many of the us from the 99% made famous by the Occupy Wall Street protests, are concerned that neither candidate is paying adequate attention to the issue of poverty. We are concerned that, while much is being made of impending debt ceiling debates, and geopolitics, the plight of a large percentage of the people living in the American heartland is being almost completely ignored."

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