In nursing homes, the impoverished live their final days on pennies
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A half-century-old bit of American bureaucracy is leaving hundreds of thousands of nursing home residents in an unthinkable bind: Living on as little as $30 a month, scraping to buy clothes, personal care items and even a can of soda.