Social justice
fromPsychology Today
7 hours agoExamining Racial Disparities in Health Care
BIPOC face systemic discrimination in healthcare and societal support, leading to increased trauma and grief for their families.
#economic-disadvantage
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#new-york-city #poverty #economic-inequality #canada #public-health #anxiety #higher-education #housing-crisis
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago5 things people who grew up lower middle class quietly do as adults that look strange until you understand the logic behind them - Silicon Canals
Lower middle class upbringing shapes adults' financial behaviors and anxieties, leading to habits like maintaining hidden emergency accounts.
fromFortune
3 days ago'We should absolutely be concerned about non-college-educated men today': higher rents, living at home, falling out of the labor market | Fortune
"There are very real economic forces that are limiting the options for non-college-educated men in the United States. Some of what we're seeing is simply rational responses to a system that's pricing them out."
Boston real estate
#money-anxiety
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoMental health
People who grew up in houses where money was a source of tension often become adults who can afford things comfortably but still feel a small flinch at the register, and the flinch isn't financial anymore, it's a nervous system that never got the memo that the emergency is over. - Silicon Canals
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoMental health
People who genuinely understand money but still feel broke aren't bad with finances. They grew up in a system where having enough was redefined every time they relaxed, so their brain permanently registers stability as the moment before loss. - Silicon Canals
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPeople who grew up in houses where money was a source of tension often become adults who can afford things comfortably but still feel a small flinch at the register, and the flinch isn't financial anymore, it's a nervous system that never got the memo that the emergency is over. - Silicon Canals
Money anxiety often stems from childhood experiences rather than current financial situations, affecting emotional responses to spending.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoPeople who genuinely understand money but still feel broke aren't bad with finances. They grew up in a system where having enough was redefined every time they relaxed, so their brain permanently registers stability as the moment before loss. - Silicon Canals
Money anxiety stems from childhood experiences of financial instability where relief was followed by new crises, not from financial illiteracy or lack of knowledge.
NYC parents
fromFortune
4 days agoIf the economy feels even worse for you than inflation data is showing, that might be because childcare isn't deemed a 'necessity' | Fortune
Inflation has risen to 3.3%, driven by commodity prices, particularly gasoline, affecting household affordability and economic perceptions.
fromIndependent
5 days agoModern Morals: My husband has just been let go from his fourth job in five years - I'm running out of patience. What can I do?
My husband has just been let go from his fourth job in five years. The first time it happened was during Covid when he was laid off, but it seemed to start a pattern.
Careers
fromThe New Yorker
6 days agoCory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich
Billionaireism describes both the pathology that affects you when you are so wealthy that you're effectively above consequences and above moral consideration for others, and the pathologies that having a society dominated by such people inflicts on the rest of us.
Philosophy
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days agoA question for those desperate to cut benefits to fund defence: who exactly are you willing to impoverish? | Polly Toynbee
Welfare spending is often blamed for budget issues, but actual data shows it remains stable relative to GDP, with pension costs driving increases.
#income-inequality
Social justice
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
4 days agoThe Politics of Loving Kindness: Insights from a Birth Equity Initiative | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
American politics increasingly tolerates brutal policies, widening inequality, while a vision of loving kindness could foster solidarity and community welfare.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoThe forgotten generation isn't the young people struggling to find their place in the world - it's the retirees sitting in fully paid-off houses with lifetimes of experience, waiting for a phone call that the modern world no longer knows it's supposed to make - Silicon Canals
Older adults possess valuable experience but are often overlooked and isolated in contemporary society.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 week 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.
#retirement
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoThe retirement crisis nobody is talking about isn't financial - it's that a generation raised to measure their worth in output is now expected to rest, and rest feels dangerously close to worthlessness - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to a loss of identity and purpose when work defines self-worth.
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
1 week 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.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week 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.
1 week 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.
Education
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoNobody teaches you that class isn't about income. It's about which mistakes are survivable. A rich kid's DUI becomes a learning experience. A poor kid's missed rent payment becomes a credit score that follows them for seven years. Same species, different physics. - Silicon Canals
Credit scores reflect structural inequalities, where similar mistakes lead to vastly different consequences based on financial safety nets.
Right-wing politics
fromFortune
1 month agoEconomists agree: You're not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the 'K-shaped economy' | Fortune
The K recovery illustrates a growing economic divide where the wealthy prosper while the poor struggle, echoing historical patterns of inequality.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 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
2 weeks agoThe hardest part of growing up lower middle class wasn't the lack of money. It was learning to want things quietly, because visible desire in a household running on tight margins felt like an accusation against the people who were already giving everything they had. - Silicon Canals
Emotional training around scarcity shapes behavior in lower middle class childhoods, teaching children to suppress desires to avoid adding stress to their families.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks 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.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks agoThe real class divide isn't between rich and poor. It's between people who were taught the world will accommodate them and people who were taught to accommodate the world. Both are right about the world they grew up in. - Silicon Canals
Social fluency stems from early life experiences, not wealth, shaping expectations of how the world responds to individuals.
Left-wing politics
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThere's a reason upward mobility feels impossible - I found the infrastructure that ensures it - Silicon Canals
Modern economic infrastructure systematically maintains wealth distribution across generations through credentialing, capital access, and hiring networks rather than rewarding merit and hard work.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
2 months ago8 habits that seem financially responsible but are actually the exact things keeping lower middle class families stuck forever - Silicon Canals
Many commonly taught 'responsible' money habits—obsessing over small savings, buying cheap items, and prioritizing frugality—sabotage wealth building and income growth.
Food & drink
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoWhy food justice isn't being served in America
Food justice advocates often misrepresent South Central Los Angeles as a resource-depleted food desert lacking grocery stores and knowledgeable residents, contradicting anthropological research documenting abundant food retail and community food practices.
Parenting
fromScary Mommy
1 month agoI Did Everything I Was "Supposed" To. I Still Can't Afford The Childhood I Had.
Millennial parents struggle to provide their children with the comfortable, enriched childhoods they experienced due to economic decline and rising costs of activities, education, and experiences.
Left-wing politics
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoI grew up lower middle class and the first time I saw a friend's parents throw away leftovers I understood we were different-here are 9 other moments that made it clear - Silicon Canals
Growing up working-class shapes perspectives, routines, and assumptions, creating distinct approaches to life and different definitions of normal.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe reason you feel like you're falling behind isn't burnout - it's a class architecture designed to make upward mobility feel possible while making it structurally impossible - Silicon Canals
Persistent feelings of inadequacy stem from societal narratives about mobility that promise success through individual effort while maintaining structural barriers that prevent actual advancement.
fromEmptywheel
2 months agoIt's the Inequality, Stupid: Why Test, Trace, Isolate Won't Stop Covid-19 in America
Everything is changing, and in the face of that, America is failing. Over 90,000 souls have paid for our failing. Millions more are living in terror for their livelihoods and their families. But Covid-19 isn't a technology problem, or a science question, or a supply chain issue, or even a question of doctoring. This challenge is public health, and that is something we've been failing at for a damn long time.
US politics
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
2 months agoBlack Women's Unemployment Has Skyrocketed. Here's What Happened. | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Federal workforce cuts in 2025 disproportionately increased unemployment among Black women, removing high-paying, stable roles and raising their unemployment to 7.3%.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months agoToo rich for assistance, too poor to get by: A single mom's struggle to afford life in New York City
A growing share of New Yorkers are struggling to afford life in one of the most expensive cities in the world as the costs of basic necessities like housing, groceries, and childcare soar. For decades, the city has failed to build enough new homes, creating a severe shortage that's driven up rents and home prices. Family-sized apartments with two or three bedrooms are especially hard to come by.
New York City
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.
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