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Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Sometimes it's hard to believe how our country works, not because it's so wild and crazy, but because it can be so callous and cruel.

Supplemental security income or SSI provides a monetary floor for people who cannot work.

And because people need to work to live in our country,

without this money, they might not be able to lead decent lives. It's not a lot of money,

some hundreds of dollars. And it is meticulously policed, policed in ways that we only

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