The Kids of Section 8
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Re “Cut in HUD Funds a Blow to Poor,” Feb. 29: Diana Machado said she’s being punished for being poor. But the real victims of the Section 8 subsidies suspension are the children. They’re born to women who lack the resources to properly care for them -- yet who continue to irresponsibly reproduce regardless of their desperate circumstances.
Susan Campbell
Los Angeles
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