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Hand to Mouth

Living in Bootstrap America
May 20, 2018Indoorcamping rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
You can read this one in a day, and you should. Really. I've been homeless, I've been poor, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with all the advantages, and yet that happened. My situation was due to marrying and having kids with an idiot; hers is due to having a career in food service. She illustrates beautifully why being poor and coping with being poor is not due to some character issue or poor choices (like my situation was, probably), but from structural capitalism. And every chapter knocks down those stupid arguments my mom threw back at me like there's some "culture of poverty" that irresponsible people have that is why they are poor. I wish I had the guts to throw this book at my mom next time she blames the victim who works three fast food jobs.