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Universal Basic Assets: A Smarter Fix Than Universal Basic Income?
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The Case That Defended the Homeless Vote
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She Wants Christian Missionaries Off the Reservation
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Why Native Americans in Seattle Disproportionately Live on the Streets
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The Philippine Divers Digging Undersea to Keep Gold Dreams Alive
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An ambitious new health program aims to cure one of India's biggest warts: poor health care.
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Beyond the Nobel: Esther Duflo Goes Granular on the Problems of Poverty
Esther Duflo, the youngest to win a Nobel in economics and only the second woman, is rethinking solutions to poverty problems.
