y'all ready to learn about inequality?
Unc @wkamaubell, @CNNOriginals and @ZPZProduction take us to South Carolina to see what decades of inequality can do to communities and show us some folks doing the hard work to protect those who need it.
#UnitedShades
"Only in America do you have the opportunity to go broke from healthcare bills or getting educated."
-- @wkamaubell
"If the #minimumwage had kept up pace with the American economy since 1968, it would be 24.00 now."
#UnitedShades
"Why would a so called society let ANYBODY go hungry?" #UnitedShades #foodinsecurity
We have 54 million food insecure households in America.
#UnitedShades
"When I hear the word food desert, I want to correct people and tell them that it is a food apartheid. Deserts are natural occurrences. Apartheid is intentional." -- @FreshFutureFarm #UnitedShades
"Nature is trying to take care of us, but we just keep cutting it down." -- @FreshFutureFarm, @sc_citychick
want to donate to @FreshFutureFarm?
do it here. #helpthehelpers
freshfuturefarm.org/donate #UnitedShades
if you donate to @FreshFutureFarm, dm me the receipt and I'll enter you to win a 11x17 print of mine.
allow me to reward your generosity. If more than 20 people donate I'll add raffle another print.
#UnitedShades
.@wkamaubell wasn't joking, we were in a parking lot for real. #UnitedShades
“We have sky rocketing rents but wages aren’t rising with them. If your rent is more than 30 percent of your income then you are rent burdened." — @ChasProBono
#UnitedShades
“We have been convinced that the rising stock market. More than 80 percent of all us stocks are owned by 10 percent of us households.” #UnitedShades
“91 of the top 500 companies in America paid $0 in income taxes last year, that’s not right. “We can’t rebuild the high way system or house the homeless if large corporations won’t pay anything.” #unitedshades
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