We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
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Tony Deliso
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
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Roy T. Bennett
No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.
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Roy T. Bennett
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
More Quotes By Matthew Desmond
Arleen thanked Pana. Getting off the phone, she thanked Jesus. She smiled. When she smiled she looked like a different person. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The press had loosened its grip. From landlords, she had heard eighty-nine nos but one yes. Jori accepted his mother’s high five....
Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from dangerous streets; those streets were her streets. <span style="margin:15px;...
One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and Eve's.
One in two recently evicted mothers reports multiple symptoms of clinical depression, double the rate of similar mothers who were not forced from their homes. Even after years pass, evicted mothers are less happy, energetic, and optimistic than their peers. When several patients committed suicide...
By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.
