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Removal of poverty as the objective and growth and redistribution as joint instruments to achieve it remained integral to ...

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In the Springfield metro area, about 9,600 Black people and 13,390 white people were living in poverty in 2023, according to the five-year ACS data. In the city of Springfield, about 9,000 Blacks ...

“The Green’s discussion document is a serious starting point for that conversation. We strongly support the recognition of the wider value of public expenditure to the economy. We need to be able to ...

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We are an impossibly violent and destructive species, pitiless, greedy and selfish. We not only rob the weak, even when we ...