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You folks at the Media and Democracy Blog might be interested in this piece on impoverished and low-income Americans not being centered directly in the media-led debates and discourse. That's a a major democracy gap too.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/subramaniamvincent/2024/09/18/the-missing-swing-voters-whose-voices-we-need-to-hear/

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Thank you. Definitely something that has been a problem forever -- which is not to say it isn't important today.

Unfortunate, ironic, that it has a paywall but I was able to circumvent by changing browsers.

I believe that LBJ in 1964 was the last major-party presidential candidate to raise poverty as a matter of public concern.

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