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We live in a society where the rich people get things for free and the poor people have to pay for everything.
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We also want the people with the best ideas to get the most money, and for poor ideas to remain unfunded.
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So not only is it the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do for us to grow, to make sure that middle-class families are strong and people who are poor and willing to work hard to get into the middle class, that they've got a chance. (Applause.) That's our vision.
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They are keen, for instance, to get Medicare to pick up the tab for the poor old people who are jointly eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
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Store cards have the potential to provide significant benefit irrespective of your chosen course of action because they provide useful rewards, are one of the few credit card genres people with poor or limited credit can get approved for, and have lower fee structures than unsecured credit cards for bad credit.
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Republicans said the law was needed to prevent voter fraud, while Democrats said people who are poor or elderly often do not have such identification and are unable to get the certified birth certificate and other secondary proof of identification needed to get a state-provided ID in Indiana.
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In Colombia, for example, while most young people from rich households make it to lower secondary school, only around half from poor households get the same chance.
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Patrick Butler of the National Organization of Women Foundation says the correlation exists because poor people have fewer cars and put more miles on them, thereby increasing the likelihood they'll get into an accident.
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