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forgotten histories that explain who gets left behind in this economy.

This year the team focused on the welfare to work industrial complex and the

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I've spent a fair bit of time in the last few years

getting tours of for-profit welfare offices,

like this one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where a video of a corporate motivational speaker is beaming down on me

from a TV screen in the lobby.

Look yourself in there, and with excitement and enthusiasm,

say I love my job because they pay me for working there.

If you've never heard of a for-profit welfare office before,

me neither, until I started reporting this story.

But back when Congress passed so-called welfare reform in the 1990s and made work a requirement for

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