Apr 22nd 2020,
16 tweets,
107 min read
"Official measure of poverty (1964) doesn’t take into acct household expenses: health care, child care, housing & transportation... As poverty's grown & spread, political weapons of politicians & ruling elite over past decades has been to minimize, dismiss & racialize it."
"Core govt functions have been turned over to private sector & free market. Levels of poverty & inequality now outmatch those seen in Gilded Age. This laid groundwork for rapid spread of death & disease via #COVID19 pandemic's disproportionate impact on poor ppl & ppl of color."
"After Katrina... One state legislator was overheard telling lobbyists, 'We finally cleaned out public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.'
It hardly takes a stretch of the imagination to envision similar braggadocio in the post-#coronavirus era.
#COVID19
It hardly takes a stretch of the imagination to envision similar braggadocio in the post-#coronavirus era.
#COVID19
As anthropologist Marshall Sahlins stated, poverty is a relation between ppl, a social status, an invention of civilization - if we are to define "civilization" as patriarchal Indo-European caste system that continues to aggressively wage elitist war & colonize cultures & ppls. 
@Socialista_Life @Song4Bernie @OOOlson @nowandben @IdellGabriel @Jacob_B_Shaver @so_black_berner @K810Mt @tthomaslew76
This is telling. Official Measure of #Poverty based on 1964. Yet millions in poverty has grown. 2017 data was up to 39.7 Million!!!
Corporations appear to be winning War on Poverty tho, their CEO pay has increased 1,008% between 1978 & 2018, higher 1,759% if you start from 1965.
Corporations appear to be winning War on Poverty tho, their CEO pay has increased 1,008% between 1978 & 2018, higher 1,759% if you start from 1965.
