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from my interview on Press TV<\/strong><\/a> –
\nThe best solution to decrease U.S. poverty is to “vastly decrease the power in spending of the federal government,” says James Bovard, Maryland-based policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation.<\/p>\n

“It’s the U.S. government that is dragging down the American economy and suppressing the productivity and creativity of the American people,” he told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday, a day after a report put the number of the poor in America at nearly 50 million.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Census Bureau said the number of Americans living in poverty was higher than previously estimated, and stands at 49.1 million.<\/p>\n

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\nYou can listen to my two-minute, early-morning-pre-coffee-semi-pre-verbal monologue on the topic here<\/strong>.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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