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Print Friendly A new book by two of our nation’s foremost poverty researchers, Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, reveals the desperate circumstances that hundreds of thousands of children and their parents increasingly face: living with virtually no cash income in an economy that requires it to meet nearly every human need. In $2.00 a Day: […]
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Why immigration matters today, as in ancient Rome
August 30th, 2015 
Awake Goy There is much the ancient world can teach us. One of the key lessons is that mass migration – motivated by war, societal collapse, and/or extreme poverty – is capable of destroying even the most powerful of empires. At its height the Roman Empire was so vast and powerful it was run on the […]
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Tags: ancient Rome, extreme poverty, mass migration, rome, societal collapse, the ancient world 
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