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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

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No, the only offenders the local burghers will spend money to embarrass publicly are young, single, nonwhite mothers guilty of the crime of improperly receiving benefits. And as we’ve seen, it’s a stretch to assume that they’re all really guilty. The one thing we do know is that the people on this list every month are all flat broke and incapable of hiring a decent lawyer—

— Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple

Replicated under Fair Use from The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi and Molly Crabapple. (Pg. 349)