Shelby Whatcott’s Reviews > Poverty, by America > Status Update

“ New Labor must be inclusive and anti-racist, empowering workers, young and old, including those bending in our fields, waiting on our tables, cleaning our homes and offices, and caring for our old and sick.”

“ If companies are not allowed to place employees in unnecessary danger or degrade them via discrimination or harassment, why are they permitted to pay those workers, dangerous and degrading wages?”

“We need to empower the poor.”

“We cannot do is look the American poor in the face and say, ‘we’d love to help you, but we just can’t afford to’, because that is a lie.”

“You can read injections against usury…”

“ If millions of poor renters accept exploitative housing conditions, it’s not because they can’t afford better alternatives; it’s because they often aren’t offered any.”

“ Why don’t poor families move to better neighborhoods if rents there are not that much higher? This question assumes that poor families move like affluent families do: to secure better homes, neighborhoods, schools. But it’s more often the case that poor families experience moves not as opportunities, but emergencies, even traumas.”