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- Born poor, stay poor: what my $120k student debt says about class in the US https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/08/us-student-debt-class-poverty-wealth 39 comments
- Some Differences Between People Born Wealthy and Born Poor http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=263 3 comments
- Born Poor? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it http://sfreporter.com/stories/born_poor/5339/all 51 comments
- Poorly Made in China: Why So Many Chinese Products are Born to be Bad http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13642306 17 comments
- X-Post from /r/LateStageCapitalism/ Poor are Born to Serve the Rich https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/4zx14o/poor_are_born_to_serve_the_rich/?st=iseb4osd&sh=fb26f84f 11 comments pakistan
- Born poor, stay poor: what my $120,000 student debt says about class in the US https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/08/us-student-debt-class-poverty-wealth 136 comments economy
- Study shows that you're more likely to be successful if you're born dumb and rich than poor and smart https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/would-you-rather-be-born-smart-or-rich/281828/ 193 comments economy
- Poor born to serve the rich: Pakistani politician http://m.gulfnews.com/amp/news/asia/pakistan/poor-born-to-serve-the-rich-pakistani-politician-1.1885687 21 comments pakistan
- John Boehner Was Born A Poor Black Child -snark http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2010/09/19/john-boehner-was-born-a-poor-black-child/?preview=true&preview_id=25735&preview_nonce=5e340e750f 5 comments politics
- Obama:I was born a poor black child http://www.reuters.com/article/newsone/idusn0143937020080501?sp=true& 3 comments politics
- US-born figure skater representing China blasted by Chinese netizens after poor performance https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10482257/US-born-Chinese-Olympic-figure-skater-Zhu-Yi-slammed-social-media-team-event-flop.html 65 comments china
- Basically, the greater the difference between rich and poor in a society, the harder it is to become rich if you’re born poor. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/blog/social_class_the_next_affirmat.php 3 comments politics
- The Critical Legal Theory of Bill Barr | Trump’s attorney general seems willing to deploy the law as a weapon, cracking down on crimes by the poor and the foreign-born while going easy on the crimes of the president’s associates. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/bill-barr-sees-law-tool-class-warfare/606571/ 48 comments politics
- I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the population. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/crime/12/14/florida.meeting.shooting/ 14 comments politics
- David Vitter’s Unforgivable Perversion -- "There’s only one sin those on the far right cannot forgive you for: being born poor." http://www.nationalmemo.com/david-vitters-unforgivable-perversion/ 45 comments politics
- May no daughter be born to a poor family, prays Qandeel's grieving father - The Express Tribune https://tribune.com.pk/story/1459298/may-no-daughter-born-poor-family-says-qandeels-grieving-father/ 55 comments pakistan
- Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan | Quanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz | Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today. https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/ 57 comments math
- Gift Orban: "I can’t explain it because you can’t understand. You were born in Europe, it’s not like being born in Africa." "If you’re poor in France, the state can help you, charities can help you and take care of you. In Africa, no one gives you anything and you die of hunger." https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Article/-mes-buts-m-ont-sauve-comment-gift-orban-s-est-sorti-de-la-pauvrete-grace-au-foot/1454737 92 comments soccer
- What Republicans don't want you to know: American capitalism is broken. It's harder to climb the social ladder in America than in every other rich country. In America, it's all but guaranteed that if you were born poor, you die poor. (2021) [00:25:18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FdIvLg6i4 92 comments documentaries
- What Republicans don't want you to know: American capitalism is broken. It's harder to climb the social ladder in America than in every other rich country. In America, it's all but guaranteed that if you were born poor, you die poor. (2021) [00:25:18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FdIvLg6i4 2493 comments documentaries
- Born 'dirt poor' in Alaska, man uses Ethereum Mining profits to fulfill dream of launching Brazilian Jiu Jitsu school in Texas https://www.prunderground.com/alaska-native-uses-mining-earnings-to-fulfill-dream-of-launching-labyrinth-brazilian-jiu-jitsu/00249393/ 41 comments ethereum
- “Had Michael been born in a poor ghetto in Brazil or Argentina with the ball being his only way out of poverty he would today be recognized as the biggest genius of the game ever,” Cruyff once said of his former player. https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/i-won-10-0-when-michael-laudrup-ruled-el-clasico-for-barca-and-real/ 26 comments soccer
- The health of poor Brits is worse than that of people born a century ago, new study shows. The findings indicate that the gap in health has widened between the richest and the poorest, signalling greater future pressure on health services. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/b-hop011620.php 35 comments science
- Deportation worries fuel anxiety, poor sleep, among U.S.-born Latinx youth. Fear of losing loved ones to deportation may be fueling higher levels of anxiety and poorer sleep quality among U.S.-born teenage children of Mexican and Central American immigrants, shows a new UC Berkeley study. https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/06/24/deportation-worries-fuel-anxiety-poor-sleep-among-u-s-born-latinx-youth/ 26 comments science
- Fabio Coentrão: "After all of this, I felt what I really needed was to be happy; I have lost a lot of money to join a club who were upfront and honest with me, and achieve happiness. The reality is that no amount of money can buy happiness. I was born poor, so why should I care if I die poor?". https://en.as.com/en/2018/09/01/football/1535795068_839601.html 196 comments soccer
- Pope Francis hands out gelati for Rome's poor on his name day - Christened 'Jorge' when he was born in Argentina, Pope Francis is celebrating his Saint's Day not with a dragon but a gelato. He is sharing the ice cream with 3,000 of Rome's poor and homeless. http://www.dw.com/en/pope-francis-hands-out-gelati-for-romes-poor-on-his-name-day/a-43495999 5 comments worldnews
- Closing The 'Word Gap' Between Rich And Poor. By the age of 3, children born into low-income families heard roughly 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers. http://www.npr.org/2013/12/29/257922222/closing-the-word-gap-between-rich-and-poor 8 comments linguistics
- GOP Ignores Children Once They’re Outside The Womb -- "I’ve never been able to wrap my head around the huge gap between anti-abortionists’ supposed devotion to fetuses and their animosity toward poor children once they are born." http://www.nationalmemo.com/gop-ignores-children-once-theyre-outside-the-womb/#.ucw2nnfqqvk.reddit 1776 comments politics
- An analysis of recent data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of 97 adolescents who were part of study begun with very low birth weight babies born in 1982-1986 in a Cleveland neonatal intensive care unit has tied smaller brain volumes to poor academic achievement http://www.universityherald.com/articles/3502/20130610/reduced-brain-volume-kids-low-birth-weight-tied-academic-struggles.htm 3 comments science
- Rise in Couples Seeking "Wombs for Hire" Abroad - British parents registering children born to foreign surrogates trebles in 5 years, raising concerns that poor women in developing countries are being exploited by rich Westerners http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/exclusive-rise-in-number-of-couples-seeking-wombs-for-hire-abroad-8432820.html 15 comments worldnews
- The Secret Tunnels Under Liverpool - Joseph Williamson was an intriguing fellow. Born poor in 1769, he set off to Liverpool, took a wealthy wife & then, for reasons only known to himself, started digging tunnels, the purpose of which remain a total mystery. http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2012/forget-the-cavern-for-liverpools-real-underground-try-its-secret-tunnels 9 comments history
- Taking A Shyne To Judaism - Shyne was born poor in Belize. Found fame as American rapper. Jailed after gun-fight in New York nightclub, defending P. Diddy. Now he's a pious hasid in Jerusalem. And his father is prime minister of Belize. http://www.jpost.com/magazine/features/article.aspx?id=194919 3 comments worldnews
- Duke Professor’s New [global] Poverty Study "Our results show as many as one-third of all poor people were not born poor. They became poor within their lifetimes on account of factors that could have been prevented." (i.e. illness, deaths, etc) http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/08/12/qa-duke-professor%E2%80%99s-new-poverty-study/?mod=wsj_share_reddit 17 comments worldnews
- A child is born to poor parents. The child has a mental disability and the parents are unable to support the child for life. Ponder for a moment the child's future without government assistance. Now consider Palin's statements... http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/9/764286/-on-trigs-prospects-as-an-adult-without-single-payer 3 comments politics
- President Bush—a guy who was born on third base and claimed he’d hit a triple—has taken every opportunity to work against the interests of the poor and middle class. Does this surprise you? http://www.theseminal.com/2007/12/14/obviously-i-don%E2%80%99t-read-the-post-enough/ 9 comments politics