one of the most depressing games i've ever played

peterswiggin:

Play as a struggling, modern American, jobless and a single parent. Can you make it through a month on what little money you have?


When a rich woman wants to stay home with her kids, she's lauded, and parenting is called one of the hardest jobs you can do. When a poor woman wants to stay home with her kids, she needs to learn the "dignity of work." A rich, white woman who stays at home is a good mother. A poor, black woman who stays at home is welfare queen.


flapjackstate:

[image: Cornel West holding a sign that says “if only the war on poverty was a real war then we would actually be putting money into it”].

socialistictendencies:

Cornel West being right about everything again

Source:thestreetphilosopher

motherjones:

Wherein Bill O’Reilly o-riles up Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, producing a funnysad moment of exasperation at 5:01. Check it…5:01, people.

Source:motherjones


#poverty  #politics  #jobs  
8 months ago · 97 notes · reblog
originally azspot · via azspot

shortformblog:thedailyfeed:

Nearly 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in the U.S. in 2009. That’s 15 million kids. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi ranked lowest on the study’s 10 indicators of child well-being. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Massachusetts ranked highest.

A sad number, even sadder in graphical form.

Source:thedaily.com