2 Matching Annotations
  1. Sep 2022
  2. Local file Local file
    Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty
    2
    1. chrisaldrich 30 Sep 2022
      To truly alleviate poverty on a large scale, we must fix a system in which normallife experiences such as childbirth can translate into economic insecurity. Mostof the poor are not unexplainable anomalies in an otherwise well-functioningsociety. Instead, they are the normal consequence of structural arrangementsguaranteed to produce economic insecurity.

      This sort of institutionalized economic insecurity seems bound up in institutionalized racism and may have a relationship with recent abortion bans. Can we tease out the ways these ideas are tied together or compounded?

      How can alleviating the perceptions of these effects help create societal changes and greater flexibility and more resiliency?

      These are potential national security issues were the country to come to war with other major powers.

      economic insecurity childbirth poverty abortion national security resilience
    2. chrisaldrich 30 Sep 2022
      Poverty spells triggered by moving out of one’s parents’ house tend to bethe shortest, while spells triggered by the birth of a child tend to be the longest.
      poverty spells leaving the nest childbirth poverty

    Tags

    Annotators