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Have we become a nation that turns its back on the poor?

  April 26, 2012

I find it disturbing that President Obama and Mitt Romney both seem to be pitching their campaign messages to the middle class, ignoring the poor, writes Jane Duderstadt. Has America become so selfish and materialistic that people only vote in their own self-interests?

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