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1. March 9, 2011 10:20 AM

   CNBC Misleads on “Welfare State” Dominance

   Bad math overstates government payouts

   By Ryan Chittum

   (UPDATE: See my follow-up post here: A Zombie Lie Is Born: CNBC’s false welfare-state story spreads far and wide.) There are so many things wrong with this CNBC "Fast Money" story it's hard to know where to begin.

 But let’s start with the headline:

 Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages 

I guess the first thing to point...

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2. September 17, 2012 02:59 PM

   Romney’s welfare ads: Whom do they affect?

   A consensus about coded racial appeals may be only half right

   By Greg Marx

   Over the past month, many journalists have identified a new development in the presidential campaign: Mitt Romney’s decision to begin making coded racial appeals to the white working class. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank was one of the first on the case. In an Aug. 10 column, he bashed Romney’s misleading welfare ad, which Milbank described as a bit of...

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3. September 19, 2011 02:59 PM

   The AP Puts Faces on the Poverty Numbers

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Associated Press fans out across the country to put faces on the poverty numbers released last week. Needless to say, this is what every news organization should be doing with this story, and the AP does a great job with this one. The recession began nearly four years—and there's no indication that the ranks of the poor will be...

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