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“The lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.” https://t.co/E71PZI5e8V
"Why have they been forced to swap one battle abroad for another one in the country they served?" https://t.co/xUwq8fzn6N
"Makeshift Walmart communities are attracting Americans from all walks of life" https://t.co/huDqg3wF7C
"I smoke weed, it keeps me from trying to kill myself. This shit is depressing." https://t.co/qxIf3eFJIF
"If we want to make poverty history, we need to understand the history of poverty." https://t.co/WoZuzEskYB
"it's not an accident or simple bad luck that has created a growing underclass around the world." https://t.co/pq9dsrxGDa
"The near-constant hunger, the stress that comes from watching a parent struggle, and ..." https://t.co/HnnhYZrLYu
"fees to low income people who can't pay small fines [...] they can't pay, they go to jail." https://t.co/h51oCKPRoW
"free to choose"? https://t.co/wKpTH8MbiK
"In Silicon Valley, the region’s homeless use a 24-hour bus line as a shelter at night." https://t.co/cczOn3ojCt
"... identify where energy poverty is most extreme in Vermont, both economically as well as geographically." https://t.co/UjFyOzyr9r
"In some cases, families who've lived in London for generations are left homeless" https://t.co/h14j7NjwWp
"There's another side to the story" https://t.co/Gg0Oxwaed5
Predicted War on Homelessness:"solution to homelessness where [one] could steal a couple of million dollars each?"https://t.co/ThLg0NRxq4
"the stress of poverty puts people genetically predisposed to develop an illness or disorder at an elevated risk." https://t.co/2UynT10oye
"low-income households shouldn’t have to choose between heating their homes and eating"https://t.co/VNJiPNjZnJ https://t.co/m3qo8cqGdZ
"If you really want to help, the poverty industry as we know it, has to go..." https://t.co/mxJ5O17VZm
"... most of its citizens see the problem of poverty from a distance, through a distorted lens." (h/t @cypheroftyr) https://t.co/RuRDHVevxA
Poor people are freezing to death, outpaces car deaths."fuel poverty is a serious andgrowing problem in Vermont."https://t.co/5tc80LfOHM https://t.co/JgqTdjboMC
"It’s only an accident and a period of unemployment away."https://t.co/TE6tIPeXJ7 https://t.co/KTit4qy7PL
"… much larger share of their budget on basic necessities such as food at home, utilities and health care." [2012]https://t.co/U2onXtD1BE
"… many services crucial to escaping poverty — including education, health care and child care — has soared." [2014]https://t.co/bngKsgerZT
"… report having to choose between buying food and paying for medicine and health care" [2016]https://t.co/yA46WB4BR0 https://t.co/9YGhi3NZBj
Even outside of poverty, stress leads to kids self-medicating.https://t.co/zmC8e5fZsO
"Can poverty really cause mental illness?"Well, the stress and dread of precarity sure the hell can.https://t.co/kIlpah41lr https://t.co/yqe8JcfJUH
"These undeserving poor waste their money on trying to feel better." https://t.co/9UMJhruZI5 https://t.co/whxpjUcEow
"goal seems unrealistic to many highly educated people because their worldview is lagging 60 years behind reality."https://t.co/shIjsfJxaf
"fixing activism, fixing poverty, facing real technology." @leashlesshttps://t.co/FUxYc9zm50
Relevant Choropleth;“it is happening in our inner cities, rural and affluent communities,”https://t.co/cDSy5VUOOq
This made me tear up.https://t.co/1qCLugc5bE
"Teaching was the fantasy, she said, but life on the brink of homelessness was the reality."https://t.co/pP5K2e6do6
"He says shopping for hurricane supplies is difficult on a fixed income and with no car."https://t.co/PUH96i9xl4 https://t.co/KNBBerG8mE
"You just have to kind of tuck your chin to you chest and keep going forward. Don't give up even when you want to."https://t.co/GzYpaA7Xgd
"It's a problem that people are ashamed of acknowledging, and the problem is getting worse..."https://t.co/uDNDWsM803