I know a little sumthin' about this topic. My mom worked long hours, but we were poor by American standards. We received welfare: Section 8, food stamps, government cheese, you name it. And I have worked for a Welfare to Work program (a racist policy enacted by Bill Clinton and calculated to win back anti-black democrats who have been fleeing the democratic party since the Civil Rights movement). Call me biased, but it is pretty clear to me that poverty is less about lazy people who don't want to work and more about a deeply flawed economic system that doles out trillion dollar bailouts (H/T Nikitah) and encourages greed and ruthless competition among corporate elites...
This looks to be a good follow-up to Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story. The documentary is called End of Poverty? It debuts 13 November in New York and 25 November in Los Angeles...
We can end poverty. We can, we must.GI
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