Nonprofits Must Fight Obama’s Cuts in Aid to the Poor

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The failure of nonprofit leaders to defend antipoverty programs and push for stronger ones is one of the reasons the Obama administration has gotten away with ignoring the plight of our poorest citizens.

Nonprofit leaders have not done nearly enough to point out how perverse it is that a president who ran a campaign that pledged to focus on social and economic justice is now making so few efforts to help poor and working-class people in a time of recession.

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