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Poverty

What states of emergencies mean for lower-income communities

It’s a well-known fact that lower income communities often suffer more direly when disaster strikes. There are many different factors, all stemming from the economic and labor exploitation and political negligence that people living in poverty face. Because disaster-prone land, like floodplains, is often cheaper, it is more often marketed to people with lower incomes. Texas A&M research shows that between 2000 and 2012 populations near the coast grew nearly twice as fast as the

2017 Legislative Session

Ga. Senate tone deaf on poverty

A recent proposal in the State Senate to address poverty shows a stunning ignorance (or indifference) to the lives of low-income Georgians. Sometimes I wonder exactly what policy makers think of poor folks, because their policy proposals don’t show a lot of knowledge about realities of living in poverty. More than one in six Georgians live in poverty, many more don’t meet the federally defined threshold, but still find themselves struggling to pay for life’s