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on a visit to New York City, he saw hungry-looking men sleeping in alleyways, as if one foot were already in the grave. “These people are Les Miseràbles of America,” he wrote to his parents in September 1965. “People that don’t make it in America’s social race to succeed are simply run over.”
Ariel Sabar • My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
When Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, it did not consider families with children a protected class, allowing landlords to continue openly turning them away or evicting them. Some placed costly restrictions on large families, charging “children-damage deposits” in addition to standard rental fees. One Washington, DC, development require
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
À travers le monde, 1 personne sur 9 n’a pas assez à manger. Une sur 4 vit avec moins de 3 dollars par jour, et 1 jeune sur 8 ne trouve pas de travail. Une personne sur 3 n’a toujours pas accès à des toilettes, et 1 sur 11 n’a pas accès à une eau potable sans danger. Parmi les enfants âgés de 12 à 15 ans, 1 sur 6 n’est pas scolarisé, dont une grand
... See moreKate RAWORTH • La Théorie du donut
simply told parents about the average income gains from spending one more year in school for children from backgrounds similar to theirs had a sizable positive effect on test scores,
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
since nothing would so quickly desexualize housework as a paycheck for it.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Daniel Zamora • The Case Against a Basic Income
The unequal ability of one person to capitalize on another is a classic measure of exploitation in Marx’s terms. Men’s surplus value from girl capital goes largely unseen, since girls’ participation in the clubs is assumed to be fun, leisure, and not work—much like other forms of women’s labor, like care work and reproductive labors in the househol
... See moreAshley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Men often avoided eviction by laying concrete, patching roofs, or painting rooms for landlords. But women almost never approached their landlord with a similar offer.
Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
La « désintégration » récente de la famille résulte de la disparition des pressions externes et des changements sociaux (changements dans le monde du travail qui s’est ouvert aux femmes, par exemple) beaucoup plus que de la baisse de l’amour et de la moralité.