Poverty Is All About Personal Stress, Not Laziness

By artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 11:42pm |

Economists are accumulating evidence that instead of being indolent layabouts, poor people are harried and frantic, which results in subpar decisions. By Noah Smith, Feb. 20

A basic income check each month, as well as guaranteed benefits like health care, would allow a lot of poor Americans to re-focus on getting themselves out of poverty rather than simply surviving from day to day https://t.co/mvZJAL32Cc
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) February 24, 2020

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-20/poverty-is-all-about-personal-stress-not-laziness

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I hate these definitive statements. Of course poverty includes laziness, bad luck, poor starting points, personality/physical appearance and capabilities, psychological problems, health issues, changes in community & inability to relocate, economic shifts, caring situation for others, and many other factors. Like any analysis, some will have a more pronounced effect than others.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 5:02am

I get your point totally but I just ignore declarative headlines like that, they are just to draw eyeballs, is common, got to go to the story to get the nuance. I was just glad to see economists are finally studying this aspect of the problem that sociology already knows.

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 8:10pm

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by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/26/2020 - 2:26am

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