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Poverty is Violence We Choose to Allow
Our current worldwide population is estimated at around 7 billion. Of that 7 billion, 85 of them possess a share equivalent to 3.5 billion of us. In total, less than 1,000 people control the means by which the other 6,999,999,000 are … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Brain, Decision making, Emotion, Fight-or-flight response, financial stress, Food, human brain, Limbic System, Ophidiophobia, poor, Poverty, Prefrontal cortex, Reptile, Snake, stress
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You are paying to work
Because I have a lot more time on my hands than most I tend to do a lot of thinking. The other day I realized just how many things in a person’s life are centered around their job. Then I … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, Black, Book of Numbers, East Florida, Family, Florida, Food, food stamps, Health, job, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Orlando, poor, Poverty, Slavery, United States, Wage, White people, working poor
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Now She Can Rest
This is Maria Fernandes, she was 32. She died in a parking lot between one of her four part time jobs. She just wanted to make ends meet. Instead, she died in a parking lot trying to catch a … Continue reading
Poverty Overload: A depressing purge since I can’t stop crying
Yesterday I got the news that my uncle David is dying. Some people will be cynical about how much he means to me because of the fact that I’ve probably only spent a handful of days of my entire life … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, CEO pay, Child poverty, Facebook, Family, Florida, Food, food stamps, Fuck, Health, homeless, Homelessness, hunger, Internal Revenue Service, iPad, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Personal, poverty wages, Tax incidence, Tax return (United States), TurboTax, United States, Wage, welfare, work, working poor, writing
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My Poor Mind: Poverty on the Brain
I recently saw a video on Upworthy.com and it really got me thinking. The video is talking about the mental health and overall well being of middle class, and upper middle class, women and how stress effects their minds and bodies. This doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Business, Chemical reaction, Fight-or-flight response, Food, food stamps, Health, Home, homeless, hunger, Labor, Living wage, Magnetic resonance imaging, Mental health, Mind, Minimum wage, National Institute of Mental Health, Parenting, poor, Poverty, SNAP, United States, Wage, WalMart, welfare, work
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My not exactly passive, and maybe a little aggressive, LinkedIn Profile
Every single job I have applied for lately is the same thing over and over again. I apply for an assistant manager position. I get called in for the interview. I then discover, with Family Dollar for example, that, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Assertiveness, Business, Family, Family Dollar, Florida, Food, food stamps, Health, history, Home, homeless, Homelessness, Hostility, hunger, Interpersonal relationship, Labor, Living room, Living wage, Minimum wage, Passive-aggressive behavior, Poverty, United States, WalMart, welfare, work
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Summer Vacation: The case of the missing nutrition
The oldest girl unlocked the “obtain a high school diploma” achievement. The youngest leveled up with honor roll and citizenship bonuses. Nothing to do now except sit back and coast into the next school year. Nope. For families like mine summer … Continue reading
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Tagged begging, Family, Food, food stamps, Health, hunger, Minimum wage, poor, Poverty, SNAP, Wage, welfare, work
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Let’s change the wage conversation
Over the past several weeks I’ve been looking into ways to find common ground between those who hate how many people are on food stamps, and those who don’t want to fucking be on food stamps. So I started a … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, begging, Business, Family, Food, food stamps, Health, Homelessness, hunger, Initiative, Labor, Living wage, McDonald, Minimum wage, National Minimum Wage Act 1998, Petition, poor, Poverty, SNAP, Social media, Wage, WalMart, welfare, White House, work
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Wanting a living wage is NOT laziness
Million dollar CEO’s and employers call anyone who wants a fair, safe, understanding, work environment lazy. They tell you that you are already getting more than you are worth. Well who the fuck decided they were worth so much more … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, Andrea Kieffer, Andrew Carnegie, Asshole, Black, Business, Equal pay for equal work, Family, Florida, Food, Health, Henry Ford, Henry Frick, Home, Homestead Strike, Huffington Post, hunger, Job Growth, Labor, Living wage, Minimum wage, Minnesota, National Minimum Wage Act 1998, Paul Ortiz, poor, Poverty, Republican Party United States, Sam Walton, Sick leave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, United States, Wage, WalMart, welfare, whiners, White people, work
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