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Cancel The Welfare Myth: Nobody Black Thinks A $1,400 Stimulus Check Means Retirement

The stimulus discussion proves we don’t trust people — especially poor and Black folks — to make their own best decisions

Arionne Nettles
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4 min readMar 9, 2021
People wait in line to receive uncooked food donations from the food pantry at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen on December 15, 2020 in New York City. Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

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Arionne Nettles
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Arionne Nettles is a lecturer at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, a Chicago-based journalist, and a special needs mama.

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