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There is shocking poverty across the US, including in our cities. But no, NYC's projects and the south's poverty were not comparable in either breadth or depth,
by woodruffw 4y ago
There is shocking poverty across the US, including in our cities. But no, NYC's projects and the south's poverty were not comparable in either breadth or depth, and still aren't[1].
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/health/plumbing-united-states-poverty.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/health/plumbing-united-st...
- nonethewiser 4y agoVery poor for sure. But she owns land. Compare that to people living in cells in the projects.
- woodruffw 4y agoThey’re apartments, not “cells.” And owning land doesn’t prevent indigence: it can make it worse. A good chunk of my family “owns land” in the Deep South, which is much more bucolic sounding than “lives in a mobile home next to the town dump.”