This is so key to understanding financial decision-making. #vettwitter, when we talk about the need for financial assistance for URVM students, understand that this is sometimes what's going on behind the scenes.
https://twitter.com/awkward_duck/status/1357414034274996224
It's not just that the student may be winging it on their own. It's that the student may be shouldering multiple financial burdens because the whole *family* is stuck in poverty.
Hopes & dreams are riding on success, but so is the light bill.
Hopes & dreams are riding on success, but so is the light bill.
We have to recognize that students whose families just can't help--they have a burden of self-financing, but they don't have to support family back home.
There's a population of young folk that have to do both-self finance *&* pitch in on sustaining the family.
There's a population of young folk that have to do both-self finance *&* pitch in on sustaining the family.
And if this makes you think:
That's outrageous! Their families are lazy, etc...blah, blah, blah...
Well, check your privilege & learn more about poverty.
That's outrageous! Their families are lazy, etc...blah, blah, blah...
Well, check your privilege & learn more about poverty.
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