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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 24

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Monday, May 29, 2023

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Symposium: The Racial Politics Underneath the Welfare Question

By Leland Culver '24

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March 17, 2021

In my last column, I discussed [https://amherststudent.com/article/symposium-frozen-texas-and-the-welfare-question] the rhetoric surrounding the Texas freeze, the relief going to Texas and Republican arguments about relief and redistributive government programs in general. I showed how the moral arguments of personal responsibility and pulling oneself up by the bootstraps are self-defeating and lead to stagnation. I also showed how the empirical arguments against these relief policies are predi

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