““…if you don’t have the first month’s rent as security deposit, you’re not going to get an apartment. As for the rich, affluent people comforting themselves with the thought there is nothing wrong with our country, our system, that there is something wrong with poor people — a lack of character, a lack of discipline. They eat too many chips, drink too much Mountain Dew, have too many children. [They don’t stop] to look at the hard-core fact that at the bottom poverty is not the matter of your character. It’s a matter of a shortage of money. You don’t have the means for a better choice.”
- Barbara Ehrenreich (via nc4l)
- Barbara Ehrenreich (via nc4l)
