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Home Article "Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away."

"Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away."

by Ezra Klein

June 12, 2007

9:38 PM

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We talk occasionally about how to measure poverty, how to define it, how to quantify it. This, however, is what one person thinks it feels like.

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Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox.

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June 12, 2007

9:38 PM

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