"Anchoring is a popular statistical method that allows researchers to assess well-being over time by Assuming that standards of well-being don't change. But that can produce questionable estimates of the depths of poverty in any given year because standards of well-beingdo change." p. 205-6
"Being poor reduces a person's cognitive capacity more than going a full night without sleep." p.21
"Can cause anyone to make...
Decisions that look ill-advised and even downright stupid to those of us unbothered by scarcity." p. 21
"Equal opportunity is possible only if everyone can access childcare centers, good schools, and safe neighborhoods- all of which serve as engines of social mobility." p. 111
Force the Poor to Pay More - Chapter 4
"...Getting by on $55,000 a year or less, many stuck in that space between poverty and security." p. 6"How could there be... such bald scarcity amid such waste and opulence?" p. 5
"...It will require that each of us... become poverty abolitionists, unwinding ourselves from our neighbors' deprivation and refusing to live as unwitting enemies of the poor." p. 8
Jobs the are poor-payung the result of not getting enough education? p. 51
"Kind of Problem Poverty Is" Chapter 1
"Leads me back to the taproot, the central feature from which all rootless spring... poverty is an injury, a taking." p. 40
"Marriage has become something of a luxury good... which decision is more pro-family: choosing not to marry and bringing in considerably more money or choosing to get hitched and bringing in less?" p.37, 39
Now what?
Oligarchs p. 104 [very rich business leaders with a great deal of political influence]
"Poverty is a loss of liberty." p. 18 "Poverty is the feeling that your government is against you, not for you; that your country was designed to serve other people and that you are fated to be managed and Processed..." p. 19
"the real Question about single families isn't why so many poor parents are single but why we allow so many of them to remain poor." p. 40
"Ramify a welter of gnarled, twisting roots, and curls through the earth." p. 40
"Siphons off their brainpower, too." p. 22"
"There are millions of Americans whose suffering, through material pverty and poor health, is as bad or worse than that of the people in Africa or in Asia." p. 18
"United States loses more than $1 trillion a year in Unpaid taxes, most of it owing to tax avoidance by multinational corporations and wealthy families." p125
"Violent juxtapositions of wealth and destitution." p. 106
"When we are preoccupied by poverty, we have less mind to give to the rest of life" p. 21
"We imagine that their sufferings are one thing and our life another." ~ Leo Tolstoy
eXclusionary zoning ordinances p. 114
"You feel rude bringing it up." p. 42
"Zombie. No energy. Always sad" p. 45
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