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- Aug 18
Despite Tough Economy, Tea Party Congressman Introduces Bill To Defund Legal Services For The Poor

For decades, low-income Americans use government legal services for a range of important actions, like women seeking restraining orders against abusive partners, and homeowners fighting foreclosure or predatory lending. Yet the congressman questioned whether these services were “absolutely necessary” and suggested poor Americans simply rely on private charity programs so we can get this “duplicative and unnecessary program off the federal taxpayers’ dole.”

Ultimately, Scott’s bill amounts to siding with “a large employer of foreign migrants in his district — against his out-of-work constituents.”

Have your say here: http://pvox.co/f63kG4
- #poverty
- #class
- #kyriarchy
- #politics
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- Sep 11
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Can we just accept that fact that being poor, and being on public assistance, means you aren’t eating well right now? That the steak-and-lobster-buying food stamp recipient is a straw person? That people on public assistance are not living high on the hog? And that it’s a crying shame that the assistance people get is not enough? You know, call me a communist, but I would love it if people on public assistance could afford to buy the occasional skirt steak, salmon, pork tenderloin or package of dried mushrooms along with their regular food purchases if they wanted to. I think people should be able to feed themselves and their kids consistently throughout the month. I have a problem with the idea that we seem to require poor people to eat gruel and wear rags. If my tax dollars are going to help people, goddammit, I want them to be able to get enough help to eat well. It beats the hell out of what my tax dollars usually go to.

You can just… — Feministe (via lemdi)

It’s kind of sad that wanting people, regardless of their financial situation, to be able to enjoy life in some small way opens yourself up to being called a communist. Not that it is really an insult, it’s just sad that being decent is such an anomaly.

(via liquidiousfleshbag)

Poor people have birthdays too. They may even enjoy lobster on such days. True story.
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- Sep 13
Folks on food stamps are on a tight budget, and cheap food tends to be less healthy. As obesity researcher Adam Drewnowski writes in Health Affairs, “If you have $3 to feed yourself, your choices gravitate toward foods which give you the most calories per dollar.” In order to get Americans eating their recommended portion of leafy green and yellow vegetables, prices would need to drop by 289 percent, J. Eric Oliver calculates in Fat Politics. “In other words,” Oliver writes, “we need to pay people to eat them.

Watch Your Mouth: What Should Food Stamps Subsidize?
- #food stamps
- #poverty
- #obesity
- #health
- #food
- #welfare
- Sep 14
Poverty Rate Spiked To 15.1 Percent Last Year, Highest Since 1993

Gee, I wonder why…
- #poverty
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- Sep 15
81. I’ve been disappointed with most of my custom suits from Brooks Brothers. I gave them to charity.

Giving suits to charity is actually very useful. It helps poor people get better jobs, so they can possibly afford their own suits some day. It’s sad that the clothes make the employment opportunity, but that’s the way it works.
- #random
- #employment
- #poverty
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- Sep 24
Due To Health Cuts, Miscarriage No Longer Considered An ‘Emergency’ For Medicaid Patients In Washington State

Pregnant women are apparently expected to make appointments in advance if they plan on miscarrying.

I guess the moral of the story is that to some people, saving the life of the host person doesn’t matter if the fetus is just going to die anyway.
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- Oct 6
Shh… Don’t Wake the Dead

Steve Jobs is dead, but exactly what kind of legacy did he leave us?

And don’t even think about mentioning the fact that Jobs cancelled Apple’s corporate philanthropy program in 1997 when they were low on money, but after the iPod and the subsequent dozens of iProducts created a giant corporate monster with more spare cash lying around than the Federal Reserve, never even considered reinstating it. And don’t even acknowledge how Jobs refused to sign onto Bill Gates’ and Warren Buffett’s Billionaire Pledge, and never gave publicly to charity.
- #Steve Jobs
- #Apple
- #capitalism
- #poverty
- #class
- #class warfare
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- Oct 21
10 Questions for Those Who Want Abortion Illegal

1. How many years do you consider to be a fair prison term for a woman who has an abortion?

2. How many years for a doctor who performs one?

3. What other punishments would be suitable for such a breach of law: a fine, community service, submission to regular pregnancy tests, for instance?

4. Will the punishments be greater the second time around? How else will you handle recidivism?

5. Where will the state get the money necessary to prosecute one-third of all American women for this crime?

6. 42% of women who have an abortion have incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level (that’s $10,830 for a single woman with no children, for those of who are counting). When women are forced to have children they cannot afford to raise, will those children become wards of the state or new Medicaid recipients? Where will the state find the money necessary to support them?

7. Will you be willing to watch your wife die in front of you when her life is threatened by an unsafe pregnancy that no one is allowed to do anything about? Your daughter?

8. Will rapists have to pay child support to women who are forced to have their children?

9. Will the child of incest be in the custody of its rapist father or the father’s teenaged daughter, his mother? In fact, 18% of women who have an abortion in America are teenagers. Will they be required to drop out of high school to raise their children or will the state provide free childcare?

10. Will upper-class white women be prosecuted as vigorously as other women who have abortions?

10.b. You are aware that upper-class white women have abortions, aren’t you?
- #abortion
- #feminism
- #health
- #politics
- #poverty
- #class
- #religion
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- Oct 22
I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.

Fuck you.

Tea Party Group Urges Small Businesses ‘Not To Hire A Single Person’ To Hurt Obama

This is the very definition of anti-American.
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- Nov 2
Should Junk Food Be "Fat Taxed"?

I’m okay with unhealthy foods being taxed on one condition: that the revenues go into subsidizing healthy foods and delivering them to the neighborhoods which need them the most. The problem isn’t just that junk food is cheap and accessible. The problem is that fresh food isn’t.
- #food
- #poverty
- #fat
- #kyriarchy
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- Dec 6
“Vegan for my Thighs” sounds like an emo band

I’m not against fatness in general. I don’t even look “fat”. But my pants are tight and my underwear barely fits and every time I sit on the toilet I get an eyeful of these huge thighs, which triggers some horrible gender dysphoria every time I have to take a piss. So I’m going vegan.

No, I’m not just indiscriminately going vegan (to all you who are reminding me that a diet of beer and french fries can technically fit in that diet). I just did a diet assessment and realized that at least 1/3 of the calorie-laden foods I ought to avoid are dairy, and since I’ve been vegetarian for a year and a half now, it’s not a huge leap to go animal-free. I’m also cutting out restaurant food other than a few specific social events, and alcohol outside of the same. Simple carbs and processed fats are on the naughty list, with complex carbs on the nice list.

I really need to collect veggies like my life depended on it. This is where I realize how privileged I am that I can purchase fresh produce. Yes, there was a time when I was so poor and overworked both that I was underweight and malnourished from the stress. But the fact is that most of the working poor have far greater access to a huge-ass coffee/donut combo for $1.59 from the corner gas station than they do to brown rice and beans and green peppers and asparagus etc from the “local” grocery store. I know I avoid thinking about food till I’m running late and fast food is my only option, as opposed to doing the healthy (and delicious!) thing and filling up the crock pot the evening before (which, again, I’m privileged to a stable home life where slow cooking is an option).

So here’s to hoping my ADHD doesn’t get the better of me, and I find a way to make my new-found veganism something that is viable in the long-term.
(Source: ers.usda.gov)
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- Dec 14
An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong

I don’t even know where to begin…

The reason the “problem student” behaved so badly is because he knew that if his tantrums were chronic, he’d be sent home. And that was a good thing, because when he was home, his mother couldn’t work as a prostitute. He couldn’t tell any of his teachers this, of course, because then he’d run the risk of child welfare services taking him away from his mother, and he needed to be there to protect her. The boy never hated school, he just loved his mom more.

I’ll leave this one up to you, Tumblr. Have at it.
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- Dec 17
Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts

At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.

Warning: have a tissue ready before you read the rest.
- #Christmas
- #poverty
- #humanism
- #children
- #charity
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- Dec 17
I’ve never had private health insurance.

I’m ideologically opposed to paying someone to prevent me from obtaining treatment.
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- Dec 23
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry

This incredible man risked everything to help low-income menstruating people across the country have better access to sanitation.
- #period
- #menstruation
- #India
- #sanitation
- #science
- #gender
- #poverty

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Despite Tough Economy, Tea Party Congressman Introduces Bill To Defund Legal Services For The Poor

Poverty Rate Spiked To 15.1 Percent Last Year, Highest Since 1993

81. I’ve been disappointed with most of my custom suits from Brooks Brothers. I gave them to charity.

Due To Health Cuts, Miscarriage No Longer Considered An ‘Emergency’ For Medicaid Patients In Washington State

Shh… Don’t Wake the Dead

10 Questions for Those Who Want Abortion Illegal

Should Junk Food Be "Fat Taxed"?

“Vegan for my Thighs” sounds like an emo band

An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong

Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts

I’ve never had private health insurance.

An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry

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