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

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You have to be so poor as to have nothing at all to qualify for welfare. In California, to qualify for benefits, you can’t have more than $2,000 in assets to your name. If you have a car, the car can’t be worth more than $3,000.

— 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. 339)