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tothebatfax
13y ago
> This is silly - the poor are not unemployed, structurally or otherwise. To be unemployed one must be looking for work, which most American poor are not. You're not accounting for those that have given up looking for jobs. Additio
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tothebatfax
13y ago
I think this is feeding into a prevalent and false narrative that persons in poverty are all drug addicts or welfare queens. Christian Parenti really sums it up well when he describes American views on poverty in his book, The Soft Cage: &q