Impact University: Inequality
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Thompson, D. (2016-04-01, The Atlantic): Researchers know that it's expensive to be poor. But they are only beginning to understand the sum of the financial, psychological, and cultural disadvantages that come with poverty.
In America, Only the Rich Can Afford to Write About Poverty >
Ehrenreich, B. (2015-08-06, The Guardian): Barbara Ehrenreich discusses the flaw in modern journalism that allows only financially secure writers to cover poverty because the expenses are too great for struggling writers. This problem is also reflected in the nearly nonexistent coverage of poverty in the press: less than 1% of American news coverage is devoted to poverty.
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