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Dalton Conley is University Professor at NYU and author of Elsewhere, U.S.A., Honky, and Being Black, Living in the Red.
What if we stop thinking in terms of place and start thinking about families or individuals?
With benefits linked to work, Democrats could have argued for a much more generous safety net. But they missed the opportunity to rethink the social compact in this new moral universe.
Ending the welfare state as we know it.
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