“The Migration was expansive, leaderless, and often covert. It transformed the soul of America.”
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Essays on four books, Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns, or Robert Reich’s Saving Capitalism
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‘Saving Capitalism’: Checks and Balances of Market and Government
“As both human elements of society, the government and the market should be working together to keep each other in check.”
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Poverty, and the Importance of Affordable Housing
“…it is not public housing or other housing policies but the dynamics of the private housing market that are fundamental to poverty in America.”
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The Reflection of the American Dream Through ‘Nickel and Dimed’
“The popular, yet unachievable, ideal of the American dream is unattainable for many hard-working Americans.”
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Freedom, Humanity, and the American Dream: The Cost for Life in Low-Wage America
“…as the world marches forward, it seems as if the American dream may have been left tramped upon in the past.”
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Leaving the South: The Black Migrant Experience
“One of the most important factors in shaping one’s success in life is your parents’ economic status. Yet Blacks begin several steps behind whites in nearly every measure of economic success and opportunity.”
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A Crisis of Perspective
“For the impoverished, the private rental market is a game of the powerful profiting off the powerless. In this game, because poor tenants often fail to make rent, the landlords hold a stark advantage over their tenants.”
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Capitalism’s Positive Feedback Loop is in Need of a Negative One
“A positive feedback loop is in full force, resulting in a growing divide between the middle and lower classes and the very rich, a system wherein the richest 1 percent of households owns 32 percent of aggregate household wealth.”
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Ensuring Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few
“The systemic alliance between Washington and the wealthy regulates the invisible hand over capitalism — to spiral gains to the top and stagnate the status quo.”
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Invisible Crisis: The Magnitude of Low-Income Workers in America
The United States is a developed country, but it is not immune to poverty solely because it doesn’t have the stereotypical slums without water and sanitation we often associate with poverty.