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[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

For context, following is a brief but incomplete list of the ways life is “easy” when you’re poor:

*Compared to middle and upper-income Americans, the poor are three times less likely to have health insurance coverage and more likely to put off or skip necessary medical treatment as a result;

*They are three times more likely to be victimised by crime;

*The daily stresses of living under poverty impose a cognitive burden equivalent to losing 13 IQ points;

*Poor children are three times more likely to be affected by food scarcity and obesity;

*Poor children receive a lower quality education in public schools and the ones who make it to college are more likely to drop out;

*Poorer Americans breathe dirtier air, they sleep less, and they even have less sex;

*And in the end all this “easy living” literally shaves decades off their lives.

The notion that poor people have it easy is at odds with the data.

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Comments

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Along these lines (reducing income inequality):



More here. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/19/332879409/states-that-raised-minimum-wage-see-faster-job-growth-report-says)

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

But eventually it will result in their utter destruction!

/or something to that effect

[usekh.livejournal.com]

Of course! not being able to point out any time that has happened is meaningless of course.

[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

Are state-to-state comparisons in US really that relevant? Isn't say New-York economy very different in terms of industry types etc from, say, Arizona economy?

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Not for minimum wage jobs, no.

[mudryikot.livejournal.com]

"Aluminium wage" really had a ring to it. You can just imagine someone getting paid in worthless aluminium dud dollars.