One of the most powerful things we can do to end the scourge of a mental health crisis is to end poverty. It's impossible to overestimate the role that chronic economic despair plays in pushing people into a state of crisis.

May 4, 2023 · 1:04 AM UTC

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It is right out of the settler playbook...driving Natives into poverty was one of the main tactics.
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That's dumb. We had much more poverty 50 years ago and the nutcases weren't coming out the woodwork like now.
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M4A also helps to end poverty because people can actually afford any healthcare needed and not go into debt in the process, including mental healthcare. Austerity is the root cause.
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Agree - fear of not meeting basic needs is unsettling at deepest levels
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#UBISavesLives #PovertyKills "Poverty is the worst form of violence." It is also a policy choice. #CancelPoverty with policies such as #UBI and #M4A. After 40 years, it's time to #EndReaganomics. ✌️🖖
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Homelessness and poverty too often are partners. Mrs. Williamson you ignore new ideas and new voices like mine. The way you complain the Democrat Debate Committee, ignores you. How are you different? You are an elite millionaire Democrat follower! jahahughes.com/post/homeless…

Ending Homelessness in America

A Plan For A Home For All Homelessness in America has left well over 600,000 of the ones counted living out of cars, under bridges and in boxes or tents on the streets of our nation. The homeless...

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We need more free market solutions to the problem. We also need to have every state fund multiple mental health institutions to house, lock in and care for their most dangerous and severly mentaly ill.
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Reopen the asylums
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How you gonna end poverty when you can't even step outside the Dem party
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If this gov could approve 2,000 UBI-- be a game changer: defray or pay for rental housing, feed hungry kids, prescription meds, health insurance, college bills for students to give start in life...
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