biohzard-deactivated20170319
being poor and being a gamer is not what I planned
Who’s ready to get back to college?
the kabobs… 😂
okay but the person sitting on the box with their chair in it is me
juneboba reblogged
1. Limits on ATM Withdrawals for Welfare Recipients in Kansas
Governor Sam Brownback and his supporters in the state legislature of Kansas have turned their state into dystopian inspiration for a post-apocalyptic thriller, slashing social services, and leaving the poor to suffer — and in many cases actually die — for lack of basic essentials. In April, Brownback signed a bill making it illegal for welfare recipients to withdraw more than $25 from an ATM at one time. Although the policy might violate federal law, state officials have recently expressed steadfast commitment to its implementation and enforcement. The policy manages to achieve the trifecta of mean-spiritedness, dangerous negligence of human needs, and Orwellian intervention into the private lives of citizens from the state.
2. Revocation of Driver’s License in Montana and Iowa For Missing Student Loan Payments
Failure to make student loan payments in Iowa and Montana will result in delinquent borrowers losing their driver’s licenses. With student loan defaults on the rise, and rates of poverty, even among the college educated, increasing, states are developing punitive measures to damage the lives of those already buried in student debt. Tennessee, for example, will revoke the nursing license of a nurse who fails to make student loan payments. Iowa and Montana are the worst offenders, however. Losing the ability to drive, especially in largely rural states without sophisticated public transit, will reduce the potential for poor people to work, take children to school, and take any step toward escaping poverty.
3. Arkansas Arrests and Prosecutes People for Missing Rent Payments
According to an in-depth, detailed investigation by Human Rights Watch, “Arkansas is the only US state where tenants can end up as convicted criminals because they did not pay their rent on time.” Arkansas has a unique and singularly monstrous “failure to vacate” law. Failure to Vacate allows prosecutors to charge tenants as criminals without any evidence outside the landlord’s testimony. Tenants face fines far exceeding the rent they owe, and in many cases, a sentence of jail time.
4. Using the Poor as ATMs: Harsh Financial Penalties for Minor Infractions and Traffic Violations
The Justice Department did not find cause to prosecute former Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown, but it did gather undeniable evidence proving that the poor, and in this case, mostly black residents of Ferguson live under occupation from the Ferguson police force. “Officers routinely conduct stops that have little relation to public safety and a questionable basis in law,” the Department of Justice explained. “Issuing three or four charges in one stop is not uncommon,” according to the report, “Officers sometimes write six, eight, or, in at least one instance, fourteen citations for a single encounter.” In 2012, 19 percent of Ferguson’s budget derived from the imposition of fines and court fees.
5. The Return of Debtors’ Prisons
After an exhaustive study of legal harassment and predatory targeting of the poor in Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, and Washington, the ACLU concluded “that poor defendants are being jailed at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford.” The Supreme Court ruled the imprisonment of poor people for failure to pay legal fees unconstitutional, but many states ignore the law with impunity, as their powerless victims have little recourse to challenge their jailers. In Georgia, to cite one egregious example, authorities prosecuted a mentally ill teenager for stealing school supplies. The cost of her incarceration in juvenile detention centers came to a total of $4,000. The teenage girl was released only after her mother was able to pay the bill in full. In the Georgia case, and many others across America, the state functions as hostage taker, demanding family members pay ransom for the release of their loved ones.
6. Voter Identification Requirements Suppress Poor People’s Votes
Voter Identification requirements in southern states, and elsewhere, make it much more difficult for the poor to exercise their civic right to oppose the very policies, such as those enumerated above, that damage them.
Source: salon.com
juneboba reblogged
The whole “you have to earn a living” rhetoric is really toxic. Have we considered that maybe, in 2015, basic needs like housing, food, and medicine don’t really need to be “earned” but should, in any reasonably industrialized country, be guaranteed?
Oh my god, you spoiled little shits…
“What if people didn’t die because they are poor?”
“OMG you’re so spoiled!!!”
????
hersheywrites
I don’t have food stamps but I need to know how to eat well for $4/day. Thank you for this.
I love this cookbook!
anarchofoxxy
Tips and tricks on how to survive being working class.
I’ve seen this kind of thing before and a lot of them are full of random weird shit you’d never make…because of time constraints or like, it just sounds super gross.
But this one had a whole section that’s just “Things on Toast”. Another that was all about putting crap in your oatmeal to make it better. Those are fairly pedestrian and don’t take forever.
I haven’t looked through the whole thing yet but so far it’s actually pretty practical. Also if you’re broke like me and don’t know how to make Dal, you should get on that.
I also liked that there’s this at the beginning:
This book isn’t challenging you to live on so little; it’s a resource in case that’s your reality. In May 2014, there were 46 million Americans on food stamps. Untold millions more—in particular, retirees and students—live under similar constraints.
Been there. Done that. Advice on this art is always welcome.
juneboba reblogged
crybabydyke-deactivated20180227
All of those ‘here’s what you need for your first apartment’ posts are completely out of touch with a working class person’s reality. All of them. Even the ones that start off by acknowledging that similar posts/lists are “too out of touch”
“You need a full bed set and couch” sounds like the kind of shit someone who’s never had to sleep on the floor would say.
You have money for (or access to) a mattress? Put it on the floor. You’ve got yourself a bed. Frames break- the floor doesn’t. They cost more to begin with anyway. Keep it against a wall. During the day, spread a blanket over the bed, sit up with your back against the wall. Boom, you’ve got a ‘couch’.
No money or access to a mattress? Get yourself a thick comforter. These can be found at thrift stores, and unlike furniture, they can be laundered so you don’t have to worry about bugs. Lay it on the floor and use it like a mattress. Try to get another blanket (or better yet, another comforter) to cover yourself with. If you can’t, use the comforter to both line the floor and cover yourself (aka, burrito yourself with the comforter). During the day, fold the comforter into a small square. Boom, you’ve got a place to sit.
If you’re going to write a post about this, do not over-assume people’s access to resources. Underestimate if you have to.
Never be afraid to go to thrift stores and hotel furniture liquidation stores. I have picked up furniture pieces for super cheap even really cute and sturdy stuff. Browse craigslist, you can find up to date yard sale listings. Depending on the area, you can get furniture super cheap. See a yard sale while driving by with something you want? Stop and ask! Often people want stuff gone and are willing to haggle prices! I hit my local goodwill often. I see chairs, comforters, sheets, cups, utensils, pots and pans, microwaves, lamps, etc…. Goodwill also gets stuff from major chains like Target. It’s usually stuff that was clearanced and when it didn’t sell, it got shipped to goodwill. They also take stuff with badly damaged packaging. Box is dented to shit but the product inside is fine.
Hailey Fort is not a typical 9-year-old. After the Bremerton, Washington, resident saw a homeless man while shopping with her mother four years ago, she decided to do something about it. She built a shelter for her friend Edward, a former supermarket employee who had been laid off — and now she’s taking on an even bigger project.
Source: mic.com
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fullten-deactivated20240430
There are so many feminist trail blazers who were sex workers but white feminism never mentions them… I wonder if it’s also a coincidence that a lot of these women happen to also be poor, or women of color.
No. It’s not a fucking coincidence
juneboba reblogged
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Source: thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg
juneboba reblogged
okay i needed to bring this up because i don’t think many people are aware, but you see these benches??
you see them around the city, towns, bus stops, train stations, literally everywhere
so the councils and governments, super loving people that they are, started to install arm rests/dividers on these benches, right??
and i personally thought, ‘well alrighty, that’s cool’ because for some reason, it’s 100% more comfortable and acceptable to sit next to somebody you don’t know when there’s a piece of metal between you
but of course, it’s not for our personal comfort, in fact, it’s for discomfort. if you’re homeless and looking for a place to sleep, or even just rest for a while, how the fuck are you going to lie down on this?
i am livid every time i see a bench like this now, because it’s a live example of social exclusion, and a live example of how the government thinks social issues like homelessness will just disappear if you take their housing away from them, and force them to move on
this isn’t even sly, who the hell is going to rest their arm on this in the first place???
i just wanted more people to know and go off at some seats, because this isn’t ‘architecture’, it’s bullshit.
juneboba reblogged
A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
Patricia Hill Collins (via ellomaria)
Ha this is so relevant to people at my college who win “service awards” for tutoring a child a few hours a week versus people who live and work in those communities who don’t win them
(via wretchedoftheearth)
juneboba reblogged
When an assisted living home in California shut down, many of its residents were left behind, with nowhere to go. The staff at the Valley Springs Manor left when they stopped getting paid — except for cook Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, the janitor.
“There was about 16 residents left behind, and we had a conversation in the kitchen, ‘What are we going to do?’ ” Rowland says. “If we left, they wouldn’t have nobody,” Alvarez says.
Their roles quickly transformed for the elderly residents, who needed round-the-clock care. “I would only go home for one hour, take a shower, get dressed, then be there for 24-hour days,” says Alvarez.
Rowland remembers passing out medications during those long days. He says he didn’t want to leave the residents — some coping with dementia — to fend for themselves. “I just couldn’t see myself going home — next thing you know, they’re in the kitchen trying to cook their own food and burn the place down,” Rowland says. “Even though they wasn’t our family, they were kind of like our family for this short period of time.“ [x]
Alvarez and Rowland spent several days caring for the elderly residents of Valley Springs Manor until the fire department and sheriff took over. The incident led to legislation in California known as the Residential Care for the Elderly Reform Act of 2014.
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juneboba reblogged
People who use a lack of education to justify subjecting poor people to poverty are fucking revolting. They’ve invented a system wherein poor people cannot obtain a quality education because they are poor and then they use that lack of education to justify their continued poverty. It’s self-sustaining, vile, oppressive, and a fundamental tenet of modern American conservativism.
theomnipresentone-deactivated20
capitalism is inherently violent. it is not simply something being exploited. it is an entire system devoted towards artificially increasing one’s worth by withholding resources from the masses and dominating marginalized groups.
it is inherently evil. end of discussion. there can be no rich people without poor people.
juneboba reblogged
Melissa Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than being poor in America [full video]
liberalisnotadirtyword
Have I put this up on my blog before?
Fuck it, here it is again.
lookpeople
Always reblog.