poverty

For context, the relevant excerpt from a much-longer article: Every Thursday for the past few years, 26-year-old Sean McElwee, an autodidact political consultant and leftist Twitter personality known for his Abolish ICE activism, has hosted a socialist happy hour in a dank East Village bar...

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36957439 First of all thanks to all who participated in the thread I had about big box stores not like being in black neighborhoods. As far as this topic goes, it has been happening for years as the central cities have been becoming gentrified and rebuilt for...

http://playspent.org I got to the end of the month on the shady shit with $500 but lost my job. :smh: and fucked up medical problems.

Spinoff from the "I'm Not a Bum, I'm a Human Being" thread. I'm in an area where panhandling is extremely high. I seriously get asked for a cigarette 50% of the time that I'm smoking as I walk down the street. Probably about four times less as often, someone will ask for money. The people...

In his inaugural address in 1949 Harry Truman said that “more than half the people in the world are living in conditions approaching misery. For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and skill to relieve the suffering of those people.” It has taken much longer than Truman...