Tag: Poverty

What does it mean to be poor, anyway? Economists and governments measure poverty in many different ways, but the best measure is how you feel. People know when they are poor, and they know when they are not. I know what it is like to be poor, working class and middle class. Each time I shift f...

Imagine, in your head, a town on the edge of collapse. High poverty levels, high crime levels, declining population, and declining job opportunities. Hopefully, you’ve never had to live in one. If you have, though, you’ll have a clear image of what “downtown” or the &ldquo...

A huge roasted pig sprawled across the table with an apple in its smiling mouth, frozen in mockery at my naïveté. I was 6-years-old at the time and it would be years before I ate pork again. Conceptually, I knew where meat came from. But I’d never stood so close to the source. I...

A huge roasted pig sprawled across the table with an apple in its smiling mouth, frozen in mockery at my naïveté. I was 6-years-old at the time and it would be years before I ate pork again. Conceptually, I knew where meat came from. But I’d never stood so close to the source. I...

The hardest part about moving from California to Nevada was springing the news on my elderly mother. I worried that it would be a tough sell. Mom liked her assisted living community, even though their services were getting expensive and her advanced Parkinson’s disease would soon require a ...

Darren McGarvey was five when his mother tried to kill him. ‘I was upstairs in bed but finding it hard to sleep because of noise coming from the living room. My mum had people over and they were downstairs drinking, laughing and listening to music. My next memory is standing at the living room...

In this complex dance between disability and poverty, their interconnectedness creates a formidable challenge. At first glance, it may seem like a daunting puzzle to unravel, but let us dive in and explore the intricate relationship between these two forces. Disability, unfortunately, can be a ca...

Period poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products due to financial constraint or lack of proper education around periods. Because of this, periods are affecting the lives of many women and young girls, negatively impacting either work, school or common life. In 2021, almost two million girls...

I have written before about poverty and crime, and violent offending, stressing that the relationship between offending and poverty is not a straightforward one e.g., that in the postwar period, crime, including violent offending increased significantly up until the early 1990’s despite standa...

In a recent gathering at the Vancouver Public Library, I had the privilege of participating in a community-driven discussion on addressing poverty issues. One individual who profoundly impacted the event was Monica Zazueta, accompanied by her husband and their charming son. Monica’s message...

The counties of the Great Plains are primarily rural, so incomes are generally below the national average of $62,843 in 2019. I chose to make the map showing percentages of people in poverty, which of course is strongly related to median household income. Generally, the ten lowest poverty countie...

I promised Russia this defeat before. I hereby renew my promise. Russia is further away from achieving its goals than they were one year ago. The Russian regime and a large part of the Russian public have fallen victim to the deadly delusion that Russia can’t lose, just because it is R...

What astonished me the most, is the absolute lack of effort from the side of the author to even attempt a logical and scientific analysis of an issue of such importance as poverty. You will also soon discover why. I will be quoting the author throughout this essay, in a conscious attempt to not m...