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Why Charity is Wrong
No Such Thing as a Permanent “Emergency”
A recent New York Times article shines a spotlight on college students and hunger. One of the surveys it cites, estimates that almost half (48%) of the students attending classes at the City University of New York (CUNY), which also encompasses the city’s community colleges, are “food insecure,” meaning that they reported being hungry in the last thirty days.
Just when you think that, as a society, we can’t sink any lower . . .
Where the Rubber Hits the Road
We do the best we can, in America, to “hide” poverty.
When Shyster Lawyer Rudy G was “America’s Mayor,” for example, he “cleaned up New York,” not by addressing root causes and changing lives — Repubs don’t spend money on, y’know, frivolous things like . . . people — but, in part, by moving as many poverty programs as possible to the Bronx.
Presto!
Change-o!
A New York — well . . . a Manhattan — Renaissance!
Now you see it!
Now you don’t!
There are a number of places, however, where that strategy doesn’t work, where “the bill comes due” for all those things we refuse to fund.