The transfer of power to Washington started with slum clearance during the Depression when the federal government began relocating the poor to more concentrated enclaves of public housing where they were denied ownership of the economy they once had built to support themselves however modestly.

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China keeps angry, poor young men on the farms and compliant, while relocating relatively wealthy female knowledge and service workers in the cities.

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