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Andrew Dobelstein: Values to live by

Maybe it is true, as David Brooks wrote in the May 3 column “The nature of poverty,” that if the poor had “the norms that middle-class people take for granted” they would escape poverty, but maybe if the rich lived by the same values, people wouldn’t be poor in the first place.

Andrew Dobelstein

Chapel Hill

This story was originally published May 15, 2015 at 5:10 PM with the headline "Andrew Dobelstein: Values to live by."

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