A healthy press would take these anecdotes of “can do” spirit and ask bigger questions, like why are these people forced into such absurd hardship? Who benefits from skyrocketing college costs? Why does the public transit in this person’s city not have subsidies for the poor? Why aren’t employers forced to offer time off for catastrophic accidents? But time and again, the media mindlessly tells the bootstrap human interest story, never questioning the underlying system at work..
Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn | FAIR:
We can go way deeper in the direction of understanding the propogana of poverty in our neoliberal state. Don’t Lie to Poor Kids About Why They’re Poor
Those at the bottom — and the top — deserve to know why their experiences are so different.
August 3, 2017 | Josh Hoxie
Originally in OtherWords
Work hard and you’ll get ahead — that’s the mantra driven into young people across the country.
But what happens when children born into poverty run face first into the crushing reality that the society they live in really isn’t that fair at all?
As new research shows, they break down. A just released study published in the journal Child Development tracked the middle school experience of a group of diverse, low-income students in Arizona. The study found that the kids who believed society was generally fair typically had high self-esteem, good classroom behavior, and less delinquent behavior outside of school when they showed up in the sixth grade.
When those same kids left in the eighth grade, though, each of those criteria had degraded — they showed lower self-esteem and worse behavior.
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