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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

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

Well, it means that you drive your Cadillac up to the welfare office and get your huge check (and free abortion) then drive that check to the bank where you use it to pay the full amount for your second summer home...

Seriously, though. I have a cousin who is one of those knee-jerk conservatives, and got into it with her once. She was saying while she was on welfare (err?) she knew all these people who were living fraudulently and making all this money instead of working... I won't go into her story about how her trip to PP get birth control pills (to control her periods) where they tried to get her to get an abortion even though she wasn't pregnant... (NOT. JOKING.)

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

Oh yea, red-staters on welfare is classic.

"But I *deserve* it!"

MANDATORY ABORTIONS FOR ALL! EVEN MEN!

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

They wanted to make really sure she wouldn't breed? Seems smart.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

A fine pre-emptive move on PP's part, from what little you've described of your cousin. The human race should thank them.