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In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their lives. Rich, middle-class, and poor families depend on different kinds of programs, but the average rich and middle-class family draws on the same number o

is currently a proposal on record which seems at first to make a great deal of sense. It has been prepared by Christopher Jencks of the Center for the Study of Public Policy and is sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. It proposes to put educational “entitlements” or tuition grants into the hands of parents and students for expenditure i

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revenue-neutral carbon tax; and increased government investment in public goods, on anti-poverty programs, adult literacy programs, and health care.

“Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.”

Heather McGhee has argued in her book, The Sum of Us, that one group’s gain need not always come at another group’s expense and that adopting such a zero-sum mindset has time and again led poor whites to choose poverty and sickness over parity with Black Americans.[26] But it is also true that hoarding resources and passing laws that block the less