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Philanthropy is currently a 'Band-Aid on the open wound of American poverty' when it should be tackling larger systematic problems (by paulconstant)

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Pundits on Fox News and in other conservative media organizations have made the argument that poor people in America enjoy enoughthat they don't feel the desperation that impoverished people in Chile do. It's a disingenuous argument which ignores the fact that the actual tools of economic growth — housing, education, and health care — are far too expensive for Americans at the bottom of the income scale.

Walker has chosen an uphill battle. Why would your typical tax-dodge philanthropic foundation choose the difficult and complex task of criminal justice reform over the media-friendly narrative of providing shiny new laptops for children in poor school systems? The answer is simple: No child in American schools should ever go without a good laptop, and we should be taxing wealthy Americans and their corporations at a rate that pays for a world-class education system.

 

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