Re:The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps
by yummyfajitas on Monday May 07, 2012 @07:55AM
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The idea that poverty is a choice, and if they wanted to they could just choose their way out of it just like that.
There is of course no way to prove she has alternatives. But the article does not suggest she looked.
It's quite easy to judge most poor people in America, since most of them do choose to live off public assistance. Most poor people choose not to work, and if they do work, choose not to work full time. Bruninga-Matteau seems to fall into the latter camp.
There is of course no way to prove she has alternatives. But the article does not suggest she looked.
It's quite easy to judge most poor people in America, since most of them do choose to live off public assistance. Most poor people choose not to work, and if they do work, choose not to work full time. Bruninga-Matteau seems to fall into the latter camp.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2009.pdf
(In contrast, Stegall does seem rather more sympathetic, since he did attempt to find non-academic work.)