[link|http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/politics/11poverty.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th|http://www.nytimes.c...anted=1&th&emc=th]

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"We've had a stunning reversal in just a few weeks," said Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal advocacy group in Washington. "We've gone from a situation in which we might have a long-overdue debate on deep poverty to the possibility, perhaps even the likelihood, that low-income people will be asked to bear the costs. I would find it unimaginable if it wasn't actually happening."

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"The poor you will always have with you" (The Good Book)