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Guest Commentator

Rebecca Vallas, TalkPoverty.org

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Rebecca Vallas is the Managing Director for the Poverty to Prosperity Program at the Center for American Progress. She is also the host of Off-Kilter podcast powered by CAP Action. Follow Ms. Vallas at @rebeccavallas. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

Trump’s Executive Order on ‘Welfare’ Is Designed to Pit Workers Against One Another

By Rebecca Vallas, TalkPoverty.org Guest Commentator

workers are forced to turn to programs like Medicaid and SNAP to make ends meet, because wages aren’t enough.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that sums up how little he understands about poverty in America. The order, titled “Reducing Poverty in America…

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