{"id":1406,"date":"2023-03-20T07:31:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2023-03-20T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T07:36:38","slug":"its-not-the-poor-its-the-people-who-make-their-living-from-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1406","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not the poor, it\u2019s the people who make their living from the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they\u2019re jumping<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>from a quote in The Guardian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/mar\/19\/matthew-desmond-the-poverty-rate-in-america-and-the-uk-should-be-zero-and-i-think-we-can-get-there\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/mar\/19\/matthew-desmond-the-poverty-rate-in-america-and-the-uk-should-be-zero-and-i-think-we-can-get-there<\/a>, which the author attributes to a book by <span style=\"caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian,\" guardian text egyptian web georgia serif font-size: font-style: normal font-variant-caps: font-weight: letter-spacing: orphans: auto text-align: start text-indent: text-transform: none white-space: widows: word-spacing: rgba background-color: rgb text-decoration: display: inline float:>the novelist Tommy Orange<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>By which he means victim blaming. There&#8217;s a set of systems whereby some people in society make money from others who are poor. The example he quotes is a trailer park: there&#8217;s a slew of tenants just hanging on for one reason or another, and there&#8217;s a landlord extracting $400k a year from them. We tend to focus on the former and not the relationship between the former and the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids are jumping out the windows of burning buildings, falling to their deaths. And we think the problem is that they\u2019re jumping from a quote in The Guardian, https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/mar\/19\/matthew-desmond-the-poverty-rate-in-america-and-the-uk-should-be-zero-and-i-think-we-can-get-there, which the author attributes to a book by the novelist Tommy Orange. By which he means victim blaming. There&#8217;s a set of systems whereby some people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}