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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago8 small habits of people who grew up with money worries and still flinch at the sound of a bill arriving even though they could pay it ten times over - Silicon Canals
Financial anxiety persists regardless of improved financial situations due to deep-rooted conditioning and fear responses in the brain.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe people who never ask for help aren't independent. They learned somewhere along the way that needing something from someone always came with an invoice they couldn't afford to pay - Silicon Canals
Self-reliance often stems from early experiences that teach individuals to avoid asking for help, leading to a belief that needing others is a failure.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days agoGlobal hunger report warns of rising malnutrition and famine risks
Famine was confirmed in two places in 2025: areas of the Gaza Strip and Sudan, marking the first dual confirmation since formal famine reporting began. The Global Report on Food Crises indicated that acute food insecurity remained widespread in 2025, affecting nearly 150 million people.
World politics
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoPsychology says the people who find it hardest to be taken care of when they're sick aren't independent, they're carrying a very old belief that needing someone was the fastest way to be left - Silicon Canals
Needing care from loved ones during illness can evoke feelings of vulnerability and discomfort, often rooted in deeper fears of abandonment.
Retirement
fromFortune
3 days agoNearly half of working-age Americans don't have a retirement account-even 40% of workers nearing their 60s don't have any money stored away | Fortune
Many American workers lack retirement savings, with nearly half of private sector employees without a retirement account.
#food-justice
Agriculture
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 days agoA Vision of Food Justice, Collective Care, and Safety | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Food and medicine are interconnected, yet food policy often separates them, impacting access and equity in food justice.
Agriculture
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 days agoA Vision of Food Justice, Collective Care, and Safety | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Food and medicine are interconnected, yet food policy often separates them, impacting access and equity in food justice.
fromFast Company
4 days agoSocial Security office disruptions and closures: Full list of impacted SSA locations across 10 states
The Social Security Administration has offices across the United States and around the world in U.S. territories. Most of the time, those SSA offices are open to the public for those who need in-person services.
SF politics
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoI grew up lower middle class and the thing nobody explains is how the financial anxiety doesn't leave when the money arrives. You can have six months of savings and still feel the phantom weight of an empty account because your nervous system was calibrated in a house where the math never quite worked and it stored that frequency permanently - Silicon Canals
Chronic stress from childhood financial instability affects adult behavior and emotional responses to money.
fromTruthout
3 weeks agoLow-Income Moms Struggle to Keep Their Families Afloat Amid Gas Price Increases
Luna Rosado, a single mother, has seen her gas expenses rise by $40 weekly due to a 30 percent increase in prices after the war in Iran. This has resulted in $160 less for groceries and other necessities each month, forcing her to constantly adjust her budget.
Washington DC
#poverty
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoResearch suggests people who grew up with very little and later accumulated real wealth don't feel wealthy - they feel temporarily safe, and there's a difference - Silicon Canals
Scarcity significantly reduces cognitive performance, impacting decision-making and mental bandwidth, regardless of actual intelligence.
Social justice
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 weeks agoWeakening the Equal Credit Opportunity Act Will Widen Inequality | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
The CFPB's proposed changes to ECOA threaten to weaken protections against lending discrimination.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPsychology says people who grew up poor and became successful often can't fully enjoy it - not because they're ungrateful, but because some part of them never stopped waiting for it to disappear - Silicon Canals
Successful individuals often struggle with feelings of scarcity and anxiety about their financial stability, despite their achievements.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe most expensive thing about growing up poor isn't what you couldn't afford. It's the decision-making architecture it installs, where every choice runs through a scarcity filter that adds cost to options other people experience as free. - Silicon Canals
Financial scarcity significantly impacts cognitive performance, altering decision-making processes and creating a lasting influence on individuals' choices beyond material deprivation.
NYC parents
fromFortune
1 month agoHere's why childcare is getting more unaffordable and forcing families to make 'heartbreaking choices' | Fortune
Childcare providers face surging costs in insurance, rent, and wages while public funding declines, forcing difficult choices between business viability and affordability for families.
fromThe Atlantic
1 month agoFour Conditions Make Cash Transfers Save Lives
Cash transforms health when four particular conditions are met. Most U.S. cash-transfer pilots have lacked them. But one major American policy does come close: the federal food-assistance program SNAP. Its success offers a road map for what effective cash assistance can look like in this country, if we choose to build on it.
Public health
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoNo water or electricity, and children begging in streets filled with rubbish but this is why I won't leave Cuba
Cuba's communist revolution is collapsing under severe economic decline, shortages, and intensifying U.S. pressure aimed at extracting state assets.
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago8 things lower-middle-class people do to feel safe that wealthy people don't even think about - Silicon Canals
Growing up outside Manchester, I remember watching my mum count out exact change at the supermarket checkout, keeping a running total in her head as she shopped. Meanwhile, my university roommate would just toss things in his trolley without a second thought. That's when it hit me: Financial security isn't just about having money. It's about the mental space that money creates.
Mental health
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoPsychology says people who grew up poor develop a relationship with money that wealthy people mistake for anxiety - but it's actually a form of hypervigilance that kept their family from catastrophe - Silicon Canals
Growing up with financial instability develops hypervigilance around money as an adaptive survival skill rather than anxiety or dysfunction.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago8 little behaviors that reveal someone grew up feeling financially insecure - Silicon Canals
Childhood financial scarcity creates long-lasting behaviors—hoarding, obsessive tracking, frugality, and vigilance—that persist into adulthood even after financial improvement.
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