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The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Marian Wright Edelman
War, Fighting, Poverty
Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.101, Harvard University Press

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

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Children, United States, Poverty
Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.74, Beacon Press

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