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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

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• Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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  • America
  • Think