The First "Welfare Queen"

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, the gift to the Morehouse graduates is great, but should it be celebrated or just the standard? In the interview, Linda Taylor committed many crimes, but only one of them—welfare fraud—really mattered to politicians, the press, and the public. Anecdotes about kidnapping and possible murder would only get in the way of the portrait Ronald Reagan presented to American voters in 1976, of a woman whose defrauding of taxpayer money was typical among those dependent on social programs. Slate national editor Josh Levin wrote Slate's most read story ever, and has expanded it into a book—The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth—and a Slate podcast: The Queen, available now wherever you get your podcasts. In the Spiel, Anand Giridharadas fact checking Jared Diamond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	It's Monday, May 20, 2019 from Slated to the Gist, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:41.0	Over the weekend, billionaire Robert Smith told the graduating class of Morehouse University that all debt will be forgiven.
0:49.0	And what could be interpreted as a blatant attempt to take off the table,
0:53.0	a very large aspect of the Elizabeth Warren agenda,
0:56.0	might have peeled to the 396 members of the graduating class,
1:00.0	who would each have owed up to $10,000 in loans.
1:04.0	And my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans.
1:08.0	This is, of course, a great and generous offer stipulated.
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