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Understanding Poverty: Mark Rank
Musical Chairs
American poverty is a bit like a game of musical chairs. The US only has good opportunities for 8 out of 10 Americans, meaning 2 people always lose. Instead of adding new opportunities or chairs, we shuffle the opportunities around, but 2 of every 10 people still end up without the opportunities. This shows that poverty is a result of the systems we have in place, not personal shortcoming, and if we continue shuffling the opportunities, we will continue having a poverty problem.
Poverty Myths
Being poor in the US is subject to several damaging myths that make it harder to…
The skinny
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