Nowhere in America can someone working full-time at a minimum wage job afford a 2 BR apartment. If we had given everyone $2k/mo during the worst of the pandemic, the eviction crisis might not be the humanitarian disaster it is now. “Go get a job” is cruel advice.

Jul 31, 2021 · 4:14 AM UTC

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It was cruel advice but it's a hard truth now.
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It's not advice, it is part of the strategy to bully people into caving in and undermining resistance to abusive employers. The only answer is a general strike and mutual aide until they break. There is no other answer to this act of class war.
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Kinda telling that the entire system requires the threat of starvation and homelessness to function. Hard to exploit labor for profit otherwise.
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No, 93% have been back at work for months. Can't feel sorry for any of them that don't have the money for rent today when they have known this date was coming, and certainly not the tax payers job to bail those people out.
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Housing has been a problem in America for decades and in my home state of Washington there hasn’t been enough homeless shelters and subsidized housing for 30 years now , poor & people in poverty are running out of options and there’s nowhere for them to go @GovInslee @POTUS
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Nowhere in the *world* can someone working full-time at a minimum wage job afford a 2 BR apartment. Marianne, if you're going to be anywhere near policy it will be much better for the people it will affect for you to start thinking like an economist.
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Single bedrooms are unaffordable too!
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The cruelty is the point, Marianne
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Marianne is on one tonight in the best way
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