March 2010
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Are the Iranian Poor a Bunch of Welfare Queens?
The picture we usually get of the Iranian poor in the media is one of two extremes: the wretched of the earth, or the equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens.” (If you remember, Reagan attacked the meager US welfare system by inventing a group of people that did not even exist: pink-Cadillac driving, children producing, unwilling to work black women.)
One hears similar things about Iran,...