Poverty, Homeless, and Mental Illness

I am a mentally ill person with a passion for working with the poor, mentally ill, homeless or any combination

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State rehires doctor accused of Flint water crimes to new protected position

Through her attorneys, Wells issued a comment to The Journal, saying she “is excited for this opportunity to continue her life’s work in public health for the people of Michigan, in collaboration with her local and state public health colleagues.”

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Governor says he wasn’t aware doctor accused of Flint water crimes got new state job

“I wasn’t even aware of that in terms of her being in that position,” Snyder said Tuesday. "But I’ve supported Dr. Wells. Dr. Wells has done a lot of great work. Obviously there’s a criminal issue going on."

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Sesame Street Introduces The First Muppet To Experience Homelessness

Lily is the first resident of 123 Sesame Street to struggle with homelessness.

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To Help The Homeless, Some In LA Are Giving Them A Place To Stay

Until recently, Helen and Bryan Lopez had been homeless in LA County. Then they moved in with the Rapkin family as part of a small program that places homeless youth in people's homes, not shelters.

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Southwest Michigan Today: Tuesday July 31, 2018

Michigan farmers markets could lose the ability to offer SNAP benefits to customers. A federal judge has delayed a ruling on whether a northern Michigan

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North Dakota Prison Officials Think Outside The Box To Revamp Solitary Confinement

Thousands of inmates serve some of their time in solitary confinement, locked down in small cells for up to 23 hours a day. North Dakota is changing its thinking on this segregated housing.

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Food Stall Serves Up A Social Experiment: Charge White Customers More Than Minorities

To highlight racial income disparity, a chef in New Orleans opened a food stall, asking whites to pay $30 and people of color to pay $12 for the same meal. How did it play out?

[autisticadvocacy]

How Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm People With Disabilities and Serious Illnesses

Millions of low-income adults with disabilities and serious illnesses get health coverage through Medicaid. Many qualify because they receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), but millions more are covered under the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Medicaid expansion and longstanding coverage for low-income parents.

“Since nearly three-fifths of all non-elderly adult Medicaid enrollees with disabilities…do not receive SSI or SSDI, work requirements will still have severe — and likely disproportionate — impacts on people with disabilities.”

[justsomeantifas]

if poor people dont have a job they can’t afford a car, if they can’t afford a car and don’t have a job they wont qualify for a loan, if they don’t qualify for a loan to get a car they wont be able to get a car to find a job to make money for said car.

basically what I’m saying is without public transportation or existing funds/materials a poor person doesn’t have a fucking chance.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trump wants to cap lifetime Medicaid benefits, even for disabled people, the chronically ill, and people with Alzheimer's

If Trump gets his way, your elderly relatives will be evicted from nursing homes after their Alzheimer’s care eats up their lifetime Medicaid benefits; as Yves Smith writes, “are family members supposed to let them wander out into traffic and have nature take its course?”

Of course, the Republicans have a handy rejoinder: uncapped Medicaid benefits just incentivize people to have parents who develop Alzheimer’s, children who are born with chronic illnesses, and partners who become disabled. Unless we cap this benefit, people will just go on recklessly choosing to be born into families that don’t have unlimited budgets for their loved ones’ health care. Capping the benefit will force them to confront their bad life choices and — shit, you know what? I fucking give up.

(Signed, Chronically Ill)

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/07/are-there-no-workhouses-3.html

[sheisrecovering]

Mental illness is a burden. But having a mental illness does not make you a burden.

[ocdawareness]

You are valid and important and you should never forget that.

[entitledrichpeople]

Like most people born into poverty in the US, I’m poor.  I grew up poor and, barring major social change, I will spend the rest of my life poor and die poor.

So when people suggest that the “good” “relateable” experience of poverty is a temporary one experienced by adults from bourgeois backgrounds (this is pretty much always coded to mean only white people) it often serves as a reminder that they think people like me really deserve poverty and being targeted for things like social services cuts (and people otherwise similar to me but darker or less white coded even more).

I never consider long term or multigenerational poor people to be exempt from who I defend and see as worthwhile, and fuck you if you do.

[entitledrichpeople]

Don’t use the phrase “corporate welfare” or “welfare for the rich” when talking about government funds going to rich people.

It continues the stigma against welfare and welfare recipients.  It frames welfare as something bad, when it’s good and far too limited.  Welfare helps families meet basic needs, it’s usually not even enough to do that, and the people on it are heavily policed beyond all reason.  That’s the opposite of what funds going to the wealthy are like.

Treating welfare as an insult or as a mark of shame doesn’t help poor people.