{"id":1383,"date":"2016-01-22T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2017-08-01T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:52:31","slug":"jonah-schepp-republicans-get-poverty-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1383","title":{"rendered":"Jonah Schepp: “Republicans Get Poverty All Wrong”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article from\u00a0Politico<\/span> about poverty — by someone who’s lived it. Jonah Schepp grew up desperately poor in Manhattan, yet got a good education and ultimately a stable job. \u00a0He says, though, that this wasn’t a matter of hard work and gumption; it was “dumb luck”. \u00a0He lucked into situations that helped him, just as other folks ‘luck’ into situations that drag them down. \u00a0It wasn’t a matter of pulling himself up by his bootstraps. \u00a0He writes:<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s no denying that poor people make bad choices all the time. But at the end of the day, it doesn\u2019t matter much because we don\u2019t actually have that many choices to make, economic or otherwise. This, more than anything else, is what our moralizing politicos fail to understand about American poverty: how often we get stuck in situations where we have no options.”<\/p>\n

A good read for those who think that poverty is somehow poor people’s fault.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/01\/what-republicans-dont-get-about-poverty-213511<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting article from\u00a0Politico about poverty — by someone who’s lived it. Jonah Schepp grew up desperately poor in Manhattan, yet got a good education and ultimately a stable job. \u00a0He says, though, that this wasn’t a matter of hard work and gumption; it was “dumb luck”. \u00a0He lucked into situations that helped him, … Continue reading Jonah Schepp: “Republicans Get Poverty All Wrong”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-being-poor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-mj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}