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Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created — Jason Hickel

#bias #economics #empirical_data #history #poverty #sources | <blockquote>New research questions the dominant narrative about long-term poverty trends.</blockquote>

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Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making | Free to read | Financial Times

#england #inequality #poverty #sociology | <blockquote>Three east London boroughs were already at breaking point. Then the pandemic struck </blockquote>

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Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off - The Atlantic

#administration #cooperation #economy #poverty #sociology #welfare | <blockquote>A new study of the city’s program that sent cash to struggling individuals finds dramatic changes.</blockquote>

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The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty | MIT Technology Review

#ai #algorithm #algorithms #culture #data #ethics #poverty #technology | <blockquote>A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor from housing, jobs, and basic services.</blockquote>

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Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars | US news | The Guardian

#academia #education #homelessness #poverty

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It Is Expensive to Be Poor - The Atlantic

#article #economics #feminism #poverty #wage | <blockquote>Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.</blockquote>

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Paris sans le peuple – La gentrification de la capitale | Tout ce qui bouge

#city #economics #gentrification #housing #lang:fr #paris #poverty #town_planning

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How to End Homelessness - The Atlantic

#city #homelessness #housing #interventions #poverty #social_justice #welfare | <blockquote>The first-ever large-scale study on the topic finds that permanent, stable housing can be more cost-effective than shelters.</blockquote>

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