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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

They're weirdos out there walking around like vampires with a billion dollars, and we've got entire communities where people grow up sick from toxic waste. The state lets corporations dump

in their backyards. The money to fund single payerpayer and more is out there. We just need to

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