Out Of The Shadows Into The Light
August 29, 2024
F. Scott Fitzgerald, how the rich live, Lauren Larson, pandering to the Middle Class, The Great Gatsby, the invisible poor, the Middle Clas shrinks, The working poor, Who belongs in the Middle Class?, Why the poor don't vote2 Comments
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote those lines in his novel, The Great Gatsby, he may not have been striving for poetry, but he exposed the truth–which is what great art does. Lauren Larson isn’t an a
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November 27, 2015
Getting Jobbed, Mariana Chilton, the invisible economy, the invisible poor, the resilience of the poor, venture capitalism for the poor, Virginia Sole-Smith
I wish I could mandate that only those who have lived in poverty be allowed to make laws regarding the poor. In “Getting Jobbed,” Virginia Sole-Smith outlines the absurdities that result when myths about the poor are translated into law by the Congress. (Harper’s, October, 201
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