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Sizing Up The American Dream : NPR - 0 views

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    "Sizing Up The American Dream"
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Who's poor in America? 50 years into the 'War on Poverty,' a data portrait | Pew Resear... - 0 views

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America, the Land of Opportunity? Not for Most Poor Kids, One Study Finds | The Lowdown - 0 views

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Watch Video | American Promise: Feature Films | POV | PBS - 0 views

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    "POV's "American Promise" Is a Rare and Compelling Exploration of Race, Class and Opportunity in America." Two African-American Boys Enter a Prestigious Private School and Their Families Confront the Opportunities and Frustrations Presented by the Changing Face of Success in America
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It Is Expensive to Be Poor - Barbara Ehrenreich - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
  • What I discovered is that in many ways, these jobs are a trap: They pay so little that you cannot accumulate even a couple of hundred dollars to help you make the transition to a better-paying job. They often give you no control over your work schedule, making it impossible to arrange for child care or take a second job. And in many of these jobs, even young women soon begin to experience the physical deterioration—especially knee and back problems—that can bring a painful end to their work life.
  • I was also dismayed to find that in some ways, it is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor.
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  • Instead of treating low-wage mothers as the struggling heroines they are, our political culture still tends to view them as miscreants and contributors to the “cycle of poverty.”
  • If anything, the criminalization of poverty has accelerated since the recession, with growing numbers of states drug testing applicants for temporary assistance, imposing steep fines for school truancy, and imprisoning people for debt. Such measures constitute a cruel inversion of the Johnson-era principle that it is the responsibility of government to extend a helping hand to the poor. Sadly, this has become the means by which the wealthiest country in the world manages to remain complacent in the face of alarmingly high levels of poverty: by continuing to blame poverty not on the economy or inadequate social supports, but on the poor themselves.
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