America is the only developed country where preschoolers have to engage in child labor to keep their classmate from dying. These kids are kindhearted beyond words, but any healthcare system that would put them in that position to begin with is clearly immoral.
#PeopleOverProfits
#PeopleOverProfits
"Each story could be framed in a way meant to disgust us with the state of the social safety net and inspire us to enact policies that prevent such situations from happening. Instead, the authors tend to isolate each situation from its larger context"
mediamatters.org/health-care/me…
mediamatters.org/health-care/me…
That fact that America's social safety net is so porous that a child's hunger has to be solved by a child's labor isn't a heartwarming news story, it's proof that the war on the poor is real.
In a moral society, "school lunch debt" isn't a term that exists.
