May 2011
41 posts
andythenerd asked: Budget Bytes is a terrific blog. She respects the fact that not everyone who enjoys cooking is wealthy. http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/
Class rage in miniature: why I can't read many...
I’m an avid reader of food blogs. I love glorious color photographs of delicious food, finding new recipes and ideas for combinations of flavors, and reading about the details of how complicated and rare dishes are made. Cooking and eating are great pleasures for me, and I just find many aspects of food science and culture really interesting. I love food, and I love to celebrate it! In the...
microaggressions:
My friends keep implying that I’m a moocher because I have to wait until payday to pay them back for food/booze/etc. Sorry I’m living paycheck to paycheck. I always pay them back. In college and makes me feel poor, misunderstood.
This microagression brings up a lot of conflicting feelings for me.
On one hand, it sounds to me like the person’s friends are being...
this-bodys-fabric:
50% of Americans Couldn’t Come Up with $2,000 in an Emergency
bedbugsbiting:
Nearly half of Americans are living in a state of “financial fragility,” a new paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research reveals. To determine this statistic, researchers from the George Washington School of Business, Princeton University, and Harvard Business School asked survey...
Things to do if you are a hustling class artist or... →
aesthetictic:
creatrixtiara:
mostly to do with personal finance, but well worth a read!
I am currently undergoing a lot of stress regarding financing dental care, so this was a pretty relevant read for me.
Your mileage may vary, of course, but I found some of the tips in here to be very useful and thought-provoking.
Dental care is something I’m worrying a lot about recently as well-...
Speedbumps
It’s amazing how little things can stop me so suddenly sometimes. I can be going along with my life perfectly smoothly, and then something stops me in my tracks, leaving me with my mouth hanging open, thinking, “Really? You really think this is okay? You’re really just going to do that, world? Seriously?”
The other day, I received an email stating “Someone has...
s.e. smith at Tiger Beatdown: "Blame It On The... →
I believe I’ve mentioned how much I like the way smith talks about poverty, and this is no exception.
Numerous studies on youth growing up during recessions and economic depressions indicate that a phenomenon known as economic scarring occurs. Put in simple terms, when unemployment is high, fewer opportunities are available, fewer youth attend college, fewer youth attain high level jobs....
Anonymous asked: hey. i love your blog and i think you have some great things to say.
i just wanted to comment a little on your last post about working in the financial aid department and middle class people all pissy and everything.
and i see where you're coming from. i really do, and you're right. however, i don't think it's necessarily fair to say that middle class kids...
i just wanted to comment a little on your last post about working in the financial aid department and middle class people all pissy and everything.
and i see where you're coming from. i really do, and you're right. however, i don't think it's necessarily fair to say that middle class kids...
Poverty and the fatigue of being: a rumination.
Some days I just get so tired- tired down to my bones- tired of living this way, being this person in this world. So tired.
Morning. I get up early and take the train to work at the financial aid office. Today’s task is data entry- pages and pages of responses from graduating seniors surveyed about their financial-aid experience here.
I turn over a sheet of paper. In crabbed black...
angstiosis asked: I love this blog, I'm glad it exists.
unconquistador-deactivated20110 asked: Your posts are refreshing, real, and speak simply what it means to be poor in the US.
A note.
Because of a reader request, I’m adding a Donate button at the very top of the page. Now, I know that many of my readers are in situations where they don’t have a lot of money to spend- that’s what we’re all talking about, right? :) I totally appreciate that. But it’s true that while this blog is a labor of love, it’s also something that takes a very real...
Link to The Rotund: "On Being a Fat Southern... →
A really affecting piece for me. I don’t come from a Southern or rural-poor background, so much of this is outside the realm of my experience, but some of her words hit really close to my heart, almost painfully so. In those moments, I feel like she’s talking about me, in a way I seldom feel so viscerally. You can probably see why:
There’s a tension in my identity – something that is...
“We’re paying full fees for our daughter to go to school, and they still ask us...”
– My boss, 3 days ago, walking her daughter home from a $25,000/year Manhattan preschool. Astounded that someone who purports to be liberal doesn’t see the problems with a statement like this. (via microaggressions)
amorgans:
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but...
dailymurf asked: I'm only three pages into your blog but this is absolutely fantastic. I'm really pleased to see somebody addressing these issues. Keep doing what you're doing :)
On becoming un-poor and recognizing degrees of...
In a few weeks, I’ll be moving into a new apartment with my partner. If you know me, you know how excited I’ve been about this- I’ve been gabbing nonstop ever since we officially found a place. Our relationship has been long-distance for the past year- a particularly difficult circumstance given my financial limitations- and it is just so incredibly fantastic to have the chance...
“In general, we’re surprised that high unemployment can exist at the same time as...”
– Mike Rowe testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (via absurdlakefront)(via how-to-kiss-distinctly-american)
As long as we acknowledge only degree-required white collar jobs as valid and respectable career choices, then we can continue to justify the...
-sam-i-am:
In Seattle:
Here’s a silver lining to news of skyrocketing college tuition costs—if you’re a foster kid or an eighth grader from a low-income family (income chart and Q&A in this .pdf), the state will front the bill for your in-state college tuition.
All you have to do is sign a pledge by June 30th of your eighth-grade year promising to graduate from high school with a 2.0 GPA...
jennyhenk asked: I , for one, support your posting more regularly. You do a great job of articulating class issues and your blog is a great resource.
Also, if you did want to post more often, you could throw up a tip jar -- I know I'd put something in. Writing is work and it has value.
Also, if you did want to post more often, you could throw up a tip jar -- I know I'd put something in. Writing is work and it has value.
