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madamesilverspurs
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December 2, 2015
Why Poor People Stay Poor
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"Because our lives seem so unstable, poor people are often seen as being basically incompetent at managing their lives. That is, its assumed that were not unstable because were poor, were poor because were unstable. So lets just talk about how impossible it is to keep your life from spiraling out of control when you have no financial cushion whatsoever. And lets also talk about the ways in which money advice is geared only toward people who actually have money in the first place."
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http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/12/linda_tirado_on_the_realities_of_living_in_bootstrap_america_daily_annoyances.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_bot
December 1, 2015
Cheap at twice the price
December 1, 2015
eeep
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