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Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Barbara Ehrenreich
Motivation, Character, Poverty
"Time to Wake Up: Stop Blaming Poverty on the Poor". Essay by Barbara Ehrenreich, published in Maria Shriver "The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink", shriverreport.org. January 13, 2014.

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Barbara Ehrenreich
Expectations, Police, Poverty
Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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