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part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Poverty

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