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Poverty Inertia: Why Entire Towns Get Stuck Being Poor

Poverty Inertia: Why Entire Towns Get Stuck Being Poor

It’s more than just crabs in a bucket and a lack of funding. It’s spiritual hurt.

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Sep 01, 2022
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It’s more than just crabs in a bucket and a lack of funding. It’s spiritual hurt.

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As many of my readers know, I spent a fair amount of time wandering the streets of Newark and New York. There were a lot of times I fell asleep in warehouses, squatted, and even pulled “the buddy system” for homeless lookouts so I could get…

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