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"Forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a society that doesn’t value the most essential forms of labor." - @ezraklein https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/theres-no-natural-dignity-in-work.html?smid=tw-share
“We venerate work for the marginalized — we require it, demand it, for those on the economic margins and for people of color ... [but] For most of American history, white women weren’t expected to work, they were discouraged from working." - @povertyscholar
. @KathrynEdin interviewed 400 people across the country for six years about their budgets. “The reason people stayed on welfare is they couldn’t afford to go to work.”
Also, great thread from @povertyscholar: https://twitter.com/povertyscholar/status/1362384963224694784?s=20
