taraljc: bae-in-maine: fullpraxisnow: “[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poo

taraljc:

bae-in-maine:

fullpraxisnow:

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

—It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

what $$$ does is buy TIME. Which poor women know, and rich men barely understand.