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In reply to the discussion: This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It - HuffPo [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)29. The main problem with poverty is the Economic state it brings
Never able to save, always one crisis away from death or starvation. Kept on a leash of poverty.
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This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It - HuffPo [View all]
WillyT
Dec 2014
OP
golly, they might actually have time to pursue other interests--art, culture, peace, for example.
niyad
Dec 2014
#5
I "work" in the sense we are using the term here, about 20 hours a week.
lumberjack_jeff
Dec 2014
#23
The trap idea is also what happens to most poor here also today. I hope that this can somehow
jwirr
Dec 2014
#15
Bravo! A further advantage to criminalizing poverty and homelessness is that it
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#10
The GOP makes out that helping others doesn't work because hand-outs make people lazy.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#11
afriend here runs one of the local food banks. she wrote the other day that a person she had
niyad
Dec 2014
#14
VERY cool. A great example of up-front investing in humans, which saves everyone lots of money and
ancianita
Dec 2014
#13
Another benefit would be getting rid of the upper class people who get paid with tax money
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#52
"If the money didn't keep coming..." Money is a creation of the state, and used to maintain the
NewDeal_Dem
Dec 2014
#53
No matter how hard we try, we'll never compare to our fair cousins to the north.
mackerel
Dec 2014
#50
This cannot be true. I've never heard this on Fox News. You're making shit up.
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#54
Courage, a heart and a brain. So, fearlessness, compassion and wisdom. There were only 2
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#63