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Charity Can’t Replace Social Safety Nets

By Daniel José Camacho
A worker in a face mask walks by trucks parked at an Amazon facility as the global coronavirus outbreak continued in Bethpage on Long Island in New York. March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Mar 17, 2020
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The federal government is big, and it intervenes. The question is, for whom?

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A worker in a face mask walks by trucks parked at an Amazon facility as the global coronavirus outbreak continued in Bethpage on Long Island in New York. March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly