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kyburgOhio's Reality Helps Expose Poverty Myths:
entitledrichpeople:
GLADSTONE: “Now Carla was 30-years-old, she had worked her whole life since before she graduated high school, she even did some college. She had lots of skills, and she had a boyfriend. So a lot of the boxes that people who would judge her would tick off, were ticked-off. This baby is born. The baby has to stay in the hospital for many months. Carla visits her every day. The boyfriend just can’t hack it. Carla can’t maintain her daily job because she has to keep leaving whenever the hospital needs an operation or a surgery authorized. And so what you’ve got is a situation where she can’t maintain a job, she doesn’t qualify yet for certain kinds of help, and there is no cash. Cash-assistance has pretty much vanished as welfare in this country. So she went to the plasma clinic to sell her plasma in order to get bus fare.”
CARLA SCOTT: “I’ve always been the type of person when put [SNIFFLES] in a situation I try to champion through it, but this one right here is just - it’s very difficult. And – the last thing I ever wanted to do was sell my plasma, but if I have to go to a plasma center to at least have fare to go back and forth and change my clothes or just to eat, then that’s what I’m gonna do to be there for her.”
Things are going great as usual in the US, where poor people have to sell their blood to afford transportation to visit their extremely ill infant in the hospital.
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entitledrichpeople:
GLADSTONE: “Now Carla was 30-years-old, she had worked her whole life since before she graduated high school, she even did some college. She had lots of skills, and she had a boyfriend. So a lot of the boxes that people who would judge her would tick off, were ticked-off. This baby is born. The baby has to stay in the hospital for many months. Carla visits her every day. The boyfriend just can’t hack it. Carla can’t maintain her daily job because she has to keep leaving whenever the hospital needs an operation or a surgery authorized. And so what you’ve got is a situation where she can’t maintain a job, she doesn’t qualify yet for certain kinds of help, and there is no cash. Cash-assistance has pretty much vanished as welfare in this country. So she went to the plasma clinic to sell her plasma in order to get bus fare.”
CARLA SCOTT: “I’ve always been the type of person when put [SNIFFLES] in a situation I try to champion through it, but this one right here is just - it’s very difficult. And – the last thing I ever wanted to do was sell my plasma, but if I have to go to a plasma center to at least have fare to go back and forth and change my clothes or just to eat, then that’s what I’m gonna do to be there for her.”
Things are going great as usual in the US, where poor people have to sell their blood to afford transportation to visit their extremely ill infant in the hospital.
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