scientists Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir call this “the bandwidthtax.” “Being poor,” they write, “reduces a person’s cognitive capacity morethan going a full night without sleep.” When we are preoccupied bypoverty, “we have less mind to give to the rest of life.” Poverty does not justdeprive people of security and comfort; it siphons off their brainpower, too.
4 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2024
-
Local file Local file
-
-
The criminal-legal system, Weaver has written, “trains people for adistinctive and lesser kind of citizenship.”[16]
-
Criminal justice agencies levy steep fines and fees on the poor, oftenmaking them pay for their own prosecution and incarceration.
I'm reminded of these issues in Salem, MA during the witch trials
-
Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp
Annotation URL: urn:x-pdf:eefd847a2a1723651d1d863de5153292
Alternate annotation link: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&url=urn%3Ax-pdf%3Aeefd847a2a1723651d1d863de5153292
Tags
- bandwidth tax
- Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
- universal basic income (UBI)
- capitalism
- workforce
- incarceration
- deconcentrating poverty
- child poverty
- taxing the poor
- Vesla Weaver
- neighborhoods
- wages
- eviction
- Poverty, by America
- poverty prevention
- Matthew Desmond
- wage stagnation
- unions
- poverty abolitionism
- Eldar Shafir
- unemployment insurance
- policy
- opportunity hoarding
- opportunity commodification
- food stamps
- War on Poverty
- Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
- work
- poverty
- class
- citizenship
- landlords
- banking sector
- opportunity
- means-tested transfer programs
- Democrats
- National Labor Relations Act
- cognitive capacity
- welfare
- mortgages
- welfare system
- quotes
- taxes
- housing market
- Sendhil Mullainathan
- References
- Mollie Orshansky
- zoning laws
- empowerment
- Dan Allosso Book Club 2024-11-09
- buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) companies
- toxic capitalism
- Dan Allosso Book Club
- witch trials
- Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
- labor market
- criminal justice system
- minimum wage
- payday loan industry
- Black Americans
- sleep deprivation
- sociology
- Ronald Reagan
Annotators
-