Hank Pellissier·18 hours agoKerala (India) built 440,000 units for its homeless population; why can’t California do the same?Kerala state on India’s west coast has 34 million people. California on the USA’s west coast has 39 million people. Kerala’s per capita income is $3,200 — California’s is $76,000. Kerala’s total budget is $39 billion; California’s is $286.5 …Poverty3 min readPoverty3 min read
Edmund Morris·18 hours agoYour annual income is a useless number.Why preserving democracy demands a better way to talk about money. — Most conversations about class and finance start with annual income figures and end with spending choices, but rarely do they get so far as talking about sufficiency or affordability. Why not? As is occasionally the topic around the virtual watercooler, the value of an income is heavily affected by where…Poverty5 min readPoverty5 min read
Brian LamacraftinILLUMINATION·1 day agoMember-onlyMedium Needs Less Self-Help And More RealityBeat a dead horse — Medium has a bit of a problem in terms of the articles we often see the most on the site. There seems to be a glut of “self-help,” and not a whole lot of other content showing up. Self-help is a massive topic, but it’s getting a little boring if…Poverty4 min readPoverty4 min read
Lahiru Hettiarachchi·19 hours agoMember-onlyHow The Cycle Of Poverty Keeps People PoorWhat do you think is the one thing that differentiates successful people from the rest? Or what is the one thing that makes successful people successful? It might seem there isn’t one thing, but many, that might have some truth in it, however, they all come down to a single…Poverty6 min readPoverty6 min read
Jackie Jones Clowney·19 hours agoMember-onlyWhat Is The Deal With Tornadoes And Trailer Parks?What Is The Deal With Tornadoes And Trailer Parks? In the TV series Yellowstone, Beth Dutton declares herself the tornado, while her rival is the trailer park. This translates to the idea that Beth believes she will destroy her rival, and indeed she does albeit personally removed from his…Poverty4 min readPoverty4 min read
Karen Hinton·2 days agoMember-onlyMississippi Governor Tate Reeves’ Personal “Scars” Pale in Comparison to Scars Borne by Women & Their Children in His StateBy Karen Hinton, author of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men & Power Violet and her five-year-old son live day to day figuring out which bill to pay first, then second, then third, or even at all. At 23 and after…Poverty6 min readPoverty6 min read
Billy Jones·1 day agoMember-onlyBread and CircusesBread and circuses, they abound, though not enough to go around. Attention spans, they are no more as each new thread spins tales of yore. The war is everywhere you see, and poor folks die…Poverty1 min readPoverty1 min read
Phoebe TickellinMoral Imaginations·1 day agoMoral Imagining an end to povertyLast year, I was the Better Way Network Thought Leader on imagination. Moral Imaginations hosted an event on 18 November 2022 where we brought together a group of network members to imagine an end to poverty. This is a post written by Better Way co-convenor Caroline Slocock about the event. — Article written by Caroline Slocock about our workshop on Moral Imagining an end to poverty in November 2022.Poverty11 min readPoverty11 min read
Dean GeeinILLUMINATION·2 days agoMember-onlyThe Cycle of Decline, Where are The USA, UK, Aus, and Canada?what do you think? ‘Tough times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, and weak men create tough times.’ I heard this recently stated in a speech by a rather impressive man who was quoting his grandfather, who was quoting G Michael Hopf. Change…Poverty4 min readPoverty4 min read
Avril BlackinMystic Minds·2 days agoReflections on Poverty and InequalityAfter all, are we not all one? — I’m outside on a street corner somewhere in Zimbabwe. I’m sitting next to an airtime vendor with a megaphone programmed to repeat the same phrase over and over again. …Poverty4 min readPoverty4 min read
