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A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca...
A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011. AP Photo/Rebecca...
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Has Capitalism Killed the American Dream? This Interview is to determine whether capitalism is the best economic system for the...
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Shutterstock/photocritical Lisa Jack, University of Portsmouth Food prices, like almost everything else, are rising fast. There have recently been warnings...
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