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[Max Sawicky]

Lloyd Bentsen used to say that focusing on children was the only way 
he thought progress could be made--that the idea of the frontier and 
the self-reliant individual was just too strong in America for there 
to be a durable majority coalition that worried about the single 
working poor.    Brad DeLong

One data point:  when I introduced my idea about a
mega-kiddie-credit to a group of progressives, who
shall remain nameless, they said the problem with it
was it had nothing for families without children.

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