Nearly Half of Unhoused People Are Employed
www.projectcensored.org
Many unhoused people are employed, but face obstacles to secure stable housing due to low wages and hiring challenges.
  • voight [he/him, any]
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    11 months ago

    Showing this to my unemployed friend so he knows he has no excuse. If they can manage it

    • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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      11 months ago

      Drawing on a study produced by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, Pagaduan reported that 53 percent of the sheltered unhoused population and 40 percent of the unsheltered unhoused population were employed either part- or full-time from 2011 to 2018.

      Literally the second sentence of the article.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I mean given that poverty is entirely a political choice, it fits. Every one of these people have been failed by our political system, how is that not related to politics?