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Dalton Conley is University Professor at NYU and author of Elsewhere, U.S.A., Honky, and Being Black, Living in the Red.
With benefits linked to work, Democrats could have argued for a much more generous safety net. But they missed the opportunity to rethink the social compact in this new moral universe.
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