We. Are. Peoria (Area)

What I took from the article is a greater understanding of just how bad our economy is. It wasn't about what size apartment or whose definition of minimum wage. There are millions upon millions of people who are headed for homelessness and congress isn't doing shit to help.

Read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, and then post a reply.

And people sitting on billions of dollars worth of resources do absolutely nothing for the economy. They probably don't even buy Goya beans.

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:22 pm Read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, and then post a reply.

Yes, I read it when it was first published...during the Obama administration.

JustRight wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:39 pm

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:22 pm Read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, and then post a reply.

Yes, I read it when it was first published...during the Obama administration.

Try again - the book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books, under BUSH! Obama would be '08 to '16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed

And it was about the 1996 Welfare reform that Newt and the Gang wrote up in their Contrct with America!

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:47 pm

JustRight wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:39 pm

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:22 pm Read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, and then post a reply.

Yes, I read it when it was first published...during the Obama administration.

Try again - the book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books, under BUSH! Obama would be '08 to '16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed

My bad. So, it was written during the Bill Clinton administration. Interesting.

JustRight wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 4:01 pm

RPlant wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:47 pm

JustRight wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:39 pm

Yes, I read it when it was first published...during the Obama administration.

Try again - the book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books, under BUSH! Obama would be '08 to '16.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed

My bad. So, it was written during the Bill Clinton administration. Interesting.

... and Newt's "Contract with America". About as effective as "Make America Great Again". Sharing the love!

A book about poverty in America is somehow damming of the current President at the time the book was written because the minute a president takes office he has the power to immediately end poverty but doesn’t?

Joepyeweed wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:44 pm A book about poverty in America is somehow damming of the current President at the time the book was written because the minute a president takes office he has the power to immediately end poverty but doesn’t?

No, but I think it points out that Congress has been unable to “do something” about poverty for at least the last 20 years. Longer than that, actually. President Lyndon Johnson declared a “war on poverty” in 1964. 56 years later, we still haven’t won that war. The varies fixes (including raising the minimum wage) have done little to lift people out of poverty.