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“Being poor itself is not yet a crime, but in at least a third of the states, being in debt can now land you in jail. If a creditor like a landlord or credit card company has a court summons issued for you and you fail to show up on your appointed court date, a warrant will be issued for your arrest. And it is easy enough to miss a court summons, which may have been delivered to the wrong address or, in the case of some bottom-feeding bill collectors, simply tossed in the garbage — a practice so common that the industry even has a term for it: “sewer service.” In a sequence that National Public Radio reports is “increasingly common,” a person is stopped for some minor traffic offense — having a noisy muffler, say, or broken brake light — at which point the officer discovers the warrant and the unwitting offender is whisked off to jail.”
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Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Looting the Lives of the Poor | TomDispatch (via nickturse)
Ah, a return to the values of the 19th Century! Lets also dismantle sewers and put children back in factories (outside of China and India I mean).
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If it were still 2008, there’d be a fuckyeahbarbaraehrenreich Tumblr™.
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