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The Forty-Seven Percent
Many years ago my three children and I were nearly homeless. Child support wasn’t coming and I was too sick to work. In addition, no jobs paid enough to pay child care for three children under five. We went from … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, food stamps, Forty-Seven Percent, hate mail, homeless, poverty, poverty statistics, Romney, stereotypes, welfare
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Hunger (encore, on vacation)
I waited on our front porch in Colorado everyday, willing the mailman to bring me my child support check. The trees where the starlings roosted hovered over the porch roof. I was a single mother with three young children, and … Continue reading
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Tagged child support, food stamps, hunger, Paul Ryan, roots of injustice, SNAP, U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops
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The New Jim Crow (encore, on vacation)
I first saw the title six months ago., “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (1210).” Could it be that the author was comparing our current prison system to the notorious system of … Continue reading
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Tagged "Jim Crow, African American, prison, prison industry., racism, roots of injustice, War on Drugs, welfare
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After a Lifetime of Work
My friend desperately needs a divorce, but she lives on $500 a month and can’t afford to move out. Disabled by back surgeries and an auto accident, she receives social security disability, which is her only source of income. She … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, family violence, gender bias, Medicaid, roots of injustice, social security disability, women
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The Holy Mission
Lilly Baker came from a Kentucky coal working family of thirteen and only went through the fourth grade, but as a child, she helped her mother care for others. At fifteen, she began working with a mountain nurse, and from … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, Appalachia, baptism, Friendship, hunger, life works, old, poverty, religion, roots of injustice, welfare programs, women
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Environmental Racism
Rose Augustine, born in 1936, leaned toward me and said, “I always lived on the Southside, the part of Tucson that is Mexican American. In 1985 a newspaper reporter did a series on water contamination on the Southside. The Hughes … Continue reading
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Tagged Environmental racism, Latino, Mexican American, people of color, racism, roots of injustice, TCE, Tucson
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Class Warfare
My parents believed in the American dream so fervently that when it collapsed for me, they decided that the fault lay within me, not their vision of the world, and they cut off contact. I slowly became aware of social … Continue reading
