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The Real Story of Linda Taylor, America’s Original Welfare Queen

By Josh Levin · Slate · December 2013
The Real Story of Linda Taylor, America’s Original Welfare Queen
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"In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins—including possible kidnappings and murders—were far worse."

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