Indigence among us
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Bryce W. Ashby
Bryce Ashby is a former track athlete, current volunteer coach of the Snowden School Elementary track team, and proud dad to three runners.
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Michael J. LaRosa
Michael J. LaRosa is an associate professor of history at Rhodes College.
Cutting poverty and increasing the financial security of all Americans ought to be a political objective, if not obsession.
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