Good thread, differentiating what she calls being broke and being poor. It's one thing to be out of money as a transitional thing—especially if it is partially a choice: you're young, decided to go off track, etc.—but it's totally different to be in chronic, interminable poverty. https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/996514351115726850 …
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I remember putting loose change as gas into my car, anxiously waiting direct deposit from work to immediately dump it on rent (late). Now that I have more, people give me all sorts deals, leeway, and "that's ok" that I don't need.
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Volunteering in an “out of the cold” program I was struck by how “easy” it is to become homeless in a big, expensive city & how these people could have benefited from those 2nd or 3rd chances & how close I had come to this in my life.
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Somebody should write a handbook in how to get by when you are poor. Interviewing the real experts in this, the poor themselves.
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