#poverty kills

[professorlehnsherr-almashy]

My plans for the current holiday went from celebrating with the cats and my mum at home, recreating the princes costume from 3 wishes for cinderella, participating in the 8 holy nights 8 stories challenge along with making Christmas presents for friends to fighting against a chronic illness flare up where every step feels like walking on glass and being angry.

[tenbear-vp]

There’s something seriously wrong with our society, as evidenced by the fact that the impoverished will do what they can to help our fellows in poverty while the wealthy get to take from everyone on a whim and turn the middle class on us while they’re at it.

[virtualmosshroom]

i refuse to feel shame for struggling and asking for help. in a world where they capitalise on our guilt, i refuse. they are banking on us being too ashamed to look to community. so i quite simply refuse.

[theflagscene]

I just went through customer service to see if I could get the 10 bucks I have on my laundry card transferred back into my bank, that’s how desperate I am. You can’t btw, not that ten bucks would’ve helped much. Can’t pay the co-pay for my mom’s meds, the pets are starving, I’ve been sobbing because I missed the food bank opening hours. Today is just not my day, the next two weeks will either kill me or drive me back into the ER. Wonderful.

I need to start watching another QL to try and occupy my mind, otherwise I’ll just lose said mind.

[lilithsaintcrow]

"How, then, could they really launch their children into what felt like enemy territory? The various push and pull of love within poor families, the way that poverty and the outside world impact these bonds—these are only a few of the ways care was corrupted through the stressors of poverty."

Legacies Both Ragged and Rich: Michelle Tea on Poverty and the American Family

What is family for broke folks? How does being broke break a family? For those of us who manage to break out, what happens to those we leave

[millionmovieproject]

When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence.

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[zmkccommonplace]

While the lockdown may have been justified at the start, when little data was known, we know far more about the virus today. It’s time to use all we have learned, and all we have done, to re-open our schools and our economy safely.

Dr Scott Atlas, senior fellow at the Hoover Institute & advisor to the White House Coronavirus Task Force

[cadavidson]

Political Cartoon: Reopen US Economy or Poverty Kills Political Cartoon: Reopen US Economy or Poverty Kills A.F. Branco Cartoon – Our Worst Nightmare If we don’t get back to work, poverty from an economic collapse due to the coronavirus will kill more people than COVID-19 ever will. Hey, if it saves but one life, Right?. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2020. More A.F. Branco Cartoons at The Daily Torch.