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Taylor Link, Salon: Politics
Thu, 05/25/2017 - 6:39am

Ben Carson argues that poverty is just a “state of mind”

(Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Ben Carson, the man in charge of Housing and Urban Development — the federal agency responsible for helping America’s poor—  believes that poverty is not a socioeconomic condition but merely a “state of mind.” In a radio interview on SiriusXM Radio with Armstrong Williams, a longtime friend of Carson, President Trump’s Cabinet member revealed his views on poverty. window.hook_external_salon_video = function (){ var sYUI = window.sYUI || ( window.sYUI = YUI(slnm.config.yui) ); sYUI.use('slnmEventsTracker', 'salonVideoRealTimeTracking', function (Y) { window.slnmDebug('vrtt-ext', 'hooking video tracking for external video.', ''); Y.slnmEventsTracker.init(); window.slnmDebug('vrtt-ext', 'rechecking for video.', ''); Y.salonVideoRealTimeTracking.armTracker(); }); } “I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind,” he said on the radio Wednesday.

 

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