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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry
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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America
$2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America By Katheryn J Edin and Luke Schaefer, 2015 After the Civil War in the 1870s, Aid was created for the Windows of the War. That was about all that was available … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health, History, Politics/Economics
Tagged $2.00 A Day, 1962, 1964, 1996, 2015, ADC, AFDC, Aid to Families of Dependent Children, Aid To War Widows, Benefits, Bill Clinton, Civil War, David Ellwood, Families, Food Stamps, Impoverished, Katheryn J Edin, Living On Almost Nothing in America, Luke Schaefer, Lyndon Johnson, Medicaid, Mothers, NWRO, Poor, Poor Support, Poverty, Racism, Reduced and Free Lunches, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, Segragation, Single Mothers, SNAP, Social Security, TANIF, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, The Other America, Villain, Welfare Queen, Welfare Support, Welfare to Work, Working Poor
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Gentrification
July 1, 2017 Gentrification Gentrification comes from the old French word genterise, which means “of gentle birth.” The term refers to the process of renovating poor urban neighborhoods. Gentrification can be seen as an attempt to beautify or civilize the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Abandoned Homes, altruistic, beautification, better themselves, Boarded Up Businesses, Change, Cheap Land, Chicago, City Centers, deindustrialization, Denver, displacement, Economists, education, Evolve, Facelift, fad, Fashion, Flip, gentle, gentle birth, Gentrification, Ghetto, Health Care, homeless, inflation, Inner City, invest in people not places, investments, Jamba Juice, Laundromat, Mansfield, MIddle Class, Monett, New, new problems, Old, Poor, Poverty, profit, Property Taxes, Racism, replacing poor, Rich, rough birth, Shameless, Shelby, Starbucks, Subtext, Suburban, taxes, The Great White Flight, theme, trend, Urban Decay, wage gap, Yoga Studio
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Shameless
Shameless I read that Shameless is the most watched series on Netflix in America. Sherlock Holmes is the most watched Netflix show in England. This sparked my curiosity and so I binged watched Shameless this week—all 7 Seasons. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Absence, Accident, Alcoholic, Assistantship, Baby, Beg, Bipolar, Bitchy, Borrow, Car, Carl, Chicago, Coke, College, Dad, Deb, Debs, Delinquent, Dorm, Drinking, Drug Addict, Drunk, Dylan McDurmontt, Emmy Rossum, EMT, entrepreneurial spirit, Evolved, Father, Fierce, Fire, Foster Care, Frank, Funny, Gallagher, GED, Genius, Graduate, High School, Humor, husband, Hymie, Ian, Intelligent, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Job, Job and Family Services, Jobs, Jody, Karen, Kev, Liam, Lip, Literary Criticism, Lovers, Mandy, Meth Lab, MIA, Mickey, Military School, Mom, Monica, Mother, Murder, Neil, Only Child, Phillip, physics, Poor, Poverty, Private School, Professor, Prostitute, Quantum Physics, relationship, Russian, Sad, Sales, Sammi, Scam, Shameless, Shelia, Shoplift, Six Children, Smart, Sociopath, South Side, Spunk, Steal, Survey Courses, Svetlana, Teaching, The Alibi, Thrupple, Thug, Tragedy, Undergraduate, V. Fiona, Weed, William H Macy
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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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Red And Orange Narcissus
May 21, 2017 Red and Orange Narcissus Narcissism is named after the Greek Myth of Narcissus. Narcissus saw his own reflection in a pool and died because he refused to leave the pool. Poor Echo fell in love with him, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, Politics/Economics, Psychology
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Service
November 15, 2016 Service “Service” is the name of this week’s The Walking Dead episode. I thought that the power struggle between Negan and Rick was a good subtext for the election this year and the subsequent fallout. Tuesday night … Continue reading
Posted in Movies/TV, Politics/Economics
Tagged Abraham, America, Big Bad Wolf, Big Picture, bigoted, Brutal, Canada, Carl, Conflict, conservative, Convergence, Discontent, Educated, Election, Fight, Glen, Government of Wolves, hope, idiot, Intolerent, liberal, Losses, loud mouthed, Lucille, Maggie, Michonne, Negan, Obama, Paralyzed, Peace, Peaceful, Polarization, Poor, Power, President, Protect, Protests, Psychological Warfare, Racism, Racist, Rick, Service, Sexism, Sexist, Subtext, The Hilltop, The Kingdom, The Saviors, The Walking Dead, Tolerance, Tolerant, Torture, Trump, Tyrant, Undermine, Uneducated
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Shaw and the Play of Ideas
Shaw And The Play of Ideas By Robert F Whitman, 1977 Shaw’s hostility to Capitalism as the source of most of civilized man’s economic, social and moral ills, is both well known and persuasive throughout his writing….And war in general … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Religion
Tagged 1977, Boredom, Burden on Society, Capitalist, Capitalists, Communication, community, Creative Evolution, Don Juan, Drama, Duty, Evil, Evolution, Fabian Soceity, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, God, Government, Heavne, Hell, hope, Hopeless, Humankind, Justice, Life-Force, Logic, Logical Process, Morality, Paradox, Politics, Poor, Public Forum, Reality, Reason, Religion, Rich, Robert F Whitman, Self-Delusion, Self-Indulgence, Shavian, Shaw, Shaw and The Play of Ideas, Sincere, Socialism, Thought, Unvierse
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