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“We were a cause to them, and causes were these floating, nebulous things that lived on screens and online forums. A ribbon one could put on their profile picture. They were something one could wear like a pair of sunglasses or a new jacket, a way to present themselves to the world, a way to say, Look at my halo. Look at how much I care.”
― Operation Bounce House
― Operation Bounce House
“Poverty measures exclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Just because desperate people seek out exploitative conditions doesn't make those conditions any less exploitative.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“Some things we can’t fix. One of those things is people who are from one place disliking people from another place. If it wasn’t that, it would be something else. The reason isn’t important or relevant. It’s a handy excuse.”
― Operation Bounce House
― Operation Bounce House
“By one estimate, simply collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top 1 percent of households would bring in some $175 billion a year. We could just about fill the entire poverty gap in America if the richest among us simply paid all the taxes they owed.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
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