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The Original 'Welfare Queen'
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:32:01
Publish Date: 2019-06-05 04:01:00
Description: It's a pernicious stereotype, but it was coined in reference to a real woman named Linda Taylor. But her misdeeds were far more numerous and darker than welfare fraud. This week: how politicians used one outlier's story to turn the public against government programs for the poor.
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