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Lies we believe about who is poor and why (opens the original)
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We hear this all the time, âI donât mind helping people who really try, I just donât want my tax dollars going to people who wonât work.â People are not trying to be cruel. They just believe something that is not true. The Missourianâs Opinion section is a public forum for the discussion of ideas. The views presented in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Missourian or the University of Missouri. If you would like to contribute to the Op
Before you judge, do the math (opens the original)
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I ran into somebody at Lakota I have known for years. Chatting over the news of the day, he said broke people just are not trying hard enough. Get a second job, third job. Cancel the Netflix. I could have written his script before he spoke because I hear (we all hear, or read) some version of it all the time, generally from someone who has never had to choose between the light bill and a car repair in the same week (or has, and thinks their situation is every situation). The Missourianâs Opini
Having a roof is most of the game in beating poverty (opens the original)
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I keep turning over the things people say to me, at the grocery store, at Rotary, online. After my last two poverty columns, the same question keeps coming up. Not how can I help; folks find plenty of ways to do that. People want to know: How does a working family wind up in a pantry line in the first place? The Missourianâs Opinion section is a public forum for the discussion of ideas. The views presented in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Mi
Columbia could end sustained poverty with a clear aim and leadership (opens the original)
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Alright, I will say it, sustained poverty in Columbia is a problem we could solve. Not the poverty that arrives with a house fire or bad diagnosis because life will always knock people down â the grinding kind that traps the same families year after year. Roughly 1 in 5 people here live below the poverty line, most not from any sudden catastrophe (we could argue fewer, without the college students). They are simply stuck. It is not fate. We keep it going by default. Say I was king of Columbia?
Poverty is personal: The best use of a second chance (opens the original)
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Lonnie Lockhart Bey and Julian Jackman both spent time in prison. They will tell you that themselves, usually within the first few minutes because the young people they work with can smell a lecture coming from a mile away. A man who has actually sat in a cell does not have to lecture. He just has to tell the truth. Most of us, after rebuilding a life from that kind of setback, would want to put as much distance between ourselves and the past as possible. These two men did the opposite. They wal
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