This is something I think we knew intuitively — not that the wingnuts will care:
(via Planetsave)
Researchers who study poverty have long-recognized that those who live in poverty frequently behave in less capable ways and engage in risky behaviors that both produce additional problems and also exacerbate their poverty status. Previous research…
I heard this discussed on WNYC or WBAI, can’t recall which. The description of decision making as like broadband is very interesting, and that when the broadband is taken up with myriad problems then decision making goes to hell in a handbasket.
I may have heard Richard Wolff referencing this. Because the speaker began by stating that the poor are in reality extremely careful money managers. They have to be. But it’s that one emergency, that one illness, that one expense that can’t be met that breaks things down. Then, the mind is taken up with how to deal with all the new problems and the ability to effectively manage one’s expenses is weakened.
Thanks for the report, Susie!
(Jawbone wrote, while reading Suburban Guerrilla at the library because the broadband at home is gone, the landline phone is gone…all because of a largish unexpected expense which then made paying bills…impossible. Oh, hell.)
Are you okay, Jawbone?