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POPSPoverty Hurts Been waiting for science to confirm what I always knew & felt growing up in poverty. It's not just about the money, it's the pain that makes it traumatic. This article was life-validating.
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POPSOh Really...Heritage Foundation Misleads...Again The "we-heart-policies-that-divide-families" Heritage Foundation has a poverty "expert", R. Rector, who is always wrong. His 2000 predictive charts on the effects of the Bush tax cuts on jobs are laughable now. But everything he says about poverty is also DEAD wrong. Makes me wonder if these guys that make the big bucks are paid to be wrong. All the major policy changes that were allegedly discussed in the past. I call bullcrap. Reagan cut programs for the poor very quickly, so fast that my conservative parents who were very slow to ask for help were turned away from aid when they turned to their last resort-the gov't. No jobs, no safety nets. Voila- a home with no heat, no running water, and very little food. Us children get placed into foster care since my parents are indigent. So, those policies for the poor. HOW did they work out for you, GOP? Got Rich? BECAUSE they took a shit on poor children across the country. Praise life.
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POPSThis Man Is Evil update: the link is now defunct. Hmm I could introduce him to at least 100 people who were personally traumatized by Reagan. And since I am a living, breathing consequence of his policies, flashbacks, trauma and all, you own this misery. Conservatives cannot deny facts, no matter how long and hard they try. High unemployment led to poverty. Reagan's social policies led to NO safety net. No safety net led to 32 degree F inside the house and no food. Lack of basic necessities led the State to put me and my siblings in foster care. Do I have to draw a map? If you supported him, you supported this outcome for a 10 year old and her little brothers. The 6-yr old cowered under the dinner table at the foster home for at least two weeks. This is your compassion?? And it is happening to another child or a dozen right now. Poverty leading to foster care, broken families. How do you expect anyone to forgive you? Also, alleged scholar, poor does NOT=black.
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POPSQuestioning Someone Else's Debt I almost wish dulios had not told me about the snarky comments on Clipmarks related to my indebtedness. It's called student loans. Since when are they supposed to be embarrassing? Just because my parents could not pay for me to go to college, I am supposed to be ashamed? And of course, without child support or any contributions, I raised my two youngest siblings for seven years. Sometimes I had to borrow more money in student loans to support them. I was 25 and in graduate school with custody of my 13 year old sister, and the next year getting custody of my 12 year old brother. Where else was I supposed to get money? My story is in the clipped book as Chapter 7.
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POPSA Hero from the Poverty Class Our family has admired Ben Carson for years. He didn't escape poverty and turn around to blame other poor people for not being able to do the same. Instead, he works to build the scaffolding necessary to lift others to where he is.
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POPSWhat is Asset Poverty? Asset poverty is a measure of whether a household can support itself using savings or other available assets for 12 weeks at a poverty-level income.
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POPSContract WITH the Poor Interesting idea. If you could actually see a partnership develop where, for example, Supported Employment was offered to people with serious mental illness, it would help everyone. For more on SE, google and check out Massachusett's SEE programs.
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POPSAmerican Poverty http://www.dmegivern-dfoster.net/Consequences.html http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/003704.html http://thewisdomgoldenmean.blogspot.com/2007/06/poverty-from-up-close-and-personal.html
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POPSStrengthening Marriage Seen as Way out of Poverty Counting on couples feels like building a house on sand to me. I would actually recommend educating poor people to not have children. Getting out of poverty for my five siblings and myself has meant not being able to have children. But, at least it is working, we are each slowly crawling out.
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POPSSocioeconomic Class More Recognized in U.S. My little brother, who works for a plastics factory, was one of the first to lose his home in the mortgage crisis. I could not believe it when Alan Greenspan said he didn't see it coming. I think the wealthy who lead our country need to make a few friends in the lower classes to better keep their pulse on the other American economy.
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POPSNo Poverty in the U.S.? No poverty in the U.S. That is what some have had the nerve to suggest. Read the details of poverty at this web blog and decide for yourself.
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