In early January, walking in midtown Manhattan on a bitter-cold morning, I saw a crowd of people standing on the sidewalk about four abreast, in a line that stretched almost around the block—I guessed two thousand people, maybe more. They seemed to be all ages, from teens to oldsters, and all backgrounds, white, black, Hispanic, Pacific Rim, South Asian. I asked a man in the (...)
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And daily it gets worse as congress disputes and destroys. We seem hell bent to cut programs altogether, not just to the bone. We are and will be ashamed.