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No, it’s particularly destructive to anyone who starts out low wage. In other words, anyone who starts as the working poor. Instead of othering the other poor
by david38 5y ago
No, it’s particularly destructive to anyone who starts out low wage. In other words, anyone who starts as the working poor.
Instead of othering the other poor, by just talking about the working poor, there is more likely to be progress for the poor.
- cushychicken 5y agoit’s particularly destructive to anyone who starts out low wage. In other words, anyone who starts as the working poor. I'm firmly of the belief that poverty is intersectional to the discrimination of women and non-white people in the USA. The data bears this out. Salary data about these demographics suggest that women make about 60-80% of what a man is paid for similar work. People of color - particularly Black men - are in a similar position. This is certainly not an issue solely confined to the working poor, either. It transcends class boundaries. It just happens to impact low income women and POCs more severely because it means they're batting from behind on two fronts instead of just one.
- russelldjimmy 5y agoAs someone who doesn’t live in a western democracy, help me understand why “people of colour”, “wage gap”, “minorities” and all these other keywords need to be shoehorned into so many articles and discussions? It is so tiring to find any kind of articles that report things without getting the author/organisation’s political agenda in the way.