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[https://www.aclu.org/podcast/this-economic-policy-could-break-the-poverty-cycle by ACLU 14/3/24] | [https://www.aclu.org/podcast/this-economic-policy-could-break-the-poverty-cycle by ACLU 14/3/24] | ||
The “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be our culture’s prevailing narrative, but it actually rarely bears out this way. The truth is that our system is full of inequities that put large swaths of people in our country at significant odds with building wealth. | The “American dream” has long been regarded as the pinnacle of success, rewarded to all who display hard work and pick themselves up by their bootstraps when life knocks them down. This might be our culture’s prevailing narrative, but it actually rarely bears out this way. The truth is that our system is full of inequities that put large swaths of people in our country at significant odds with building wealth. | ||
=====‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/workers-income-labor- by Michael Sainato 6/5/24 The Guardian] | |||
When Jesse Motte began working at a Starbucks inside a Target store in Columbia, South Carolina, more than two years ago, $15 an hour sounded great. He was excited to start because it was the most he had ever made after working for years in the service industry. | |||
