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Americans in poverty

America’s poverty problem, it ain’t those other people!

May 7, 2020May 21, 2013 by Shay

For decades America’s view of what poverty looked like was either some brown or black face in a third world country, urban poverty, again relegated to a brown or black face or poor whites in rural Appalachia. In other words for the vast majority of Americans, poor people were those other people. People whose plight …

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Categories class, Current Events Tags Americans in poverty

Marriage as the cure, America’s reality problem

May 23, 2017September 13, 2012 by Shay

America has a reality problem and it ain’t Snooki, J-Wow and Honey Boo. Americans are stuck in the dreams of yesterday and a place and time where life was a lot more black and white and not the shades of grey that have become the reality of modern day life in America. Our reality problem …

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Categories class, Current Events Tags Americans in poverty, poverty, single mothers

Safety net…oh you mean the safety string?

May 7, 2020February 2, 2012 by Shay

Mitt Romney’s foot in mouth moment has inspired me to take a few minutes to post, since today being a half day of school for the wee lass and a full day of work for me means this is a long day. Yet when the guy who looks like he is going to be the …

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Categories Current Events, Poverty Tags Americans in poverty, Mitt Romney, safety nets
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