@skinnylatte @lisamelton The problem isn't just with those who have never been #poor it's also with those who were poor and then "made it." This is where #survivorship #bias comes in.
A person who succeeded after being poor is like a plane that returned home from a battle. They have a valuable story to tell, but their #advice is inherently biased because it's based only on the conditions that allowed them to survive. They cannot speak for the countless others who faced the same #hardships and didn't make it.
Therefore, when someone who is now successful says, "I was poor once, and this is what worked for me," they are speaking from a biased, unrepresentative sample. Their story, while inspiring, can be misleading. This proves that advice from any position of success—whether from the formerly poor or the never poor—carries inherent limitations that ignore the systemic issues you correctly identified. The reason this happens so often is that most of us firmly believe that we were able to #overcome #adversity.
#hardships
6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse – POLITICO
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6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse
Programs ranging from Head Start to SNAP face new strain Nov. 1.
Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via iStock)By Jennifer Scholtes10/27/2025 04:45 AM EDT
The government shutdown gets uglier at the end of this week.
With President Donald Trump traveling abroad and Congress still deeply divided over a path to fund federal agencies, a pileup of deadlines on and around Nov. 1 is set to put many U.S. households at risk of new hardship: Popular programs that provide nutrition assistance, early childhood education and air service to rural communities are now among those about to run out of money.
Thousands of federal employees will also miss their first full paychecks this week, so services like TSA screenings and air traffic control operations could be further stunted if those workers stop showing up, as was the case during the 35-day partial shutdown that ended in early 2019.
“Things are about to get worse,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned in a floor speech late last week.
And that’s to say nothing of the Nov. 1 date that open enrollment begins for Affordable Care Act health plans. That’s when people will start to see just how much their premiums are set to skyrocket because insurers aren’t confident Democrats and Republicans will reach a deal to extend enhanced tax credits before they expire at the end of the year — a central point of conflict amid the partisan shutdown impasse.
Trump employed a strategic — and unprecedented — maneuver to alleviate the first major pain point of the shutdown earlier this month, when he paid active-duty members of the military out of other accounts. Still, the White House has yet to take similar steps to fund several other priorities where payments come due in the coming days.
In Congress, some lawmakers are working to mitigate the shutdown’s effects on select services with piecemeal bills. But none of those measures are on the fast track to final passage.
As the shutdown hits the four-week mark and Thanksgiving fast approaches, here’s when cash is expected to run out for key programs if Congress can’t strike a deal soon.
SNAP food aid
Food assistance that more than 40 million people rely on — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — will start to run out of money Saturday. And the Trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to keep those food benefits going, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO.
At least 25 states are already planning to cut off benefits, which support low-income families.
Some lawmakers have been pressing the administration to tap into an agriculture contingency fund to pay out some of the benefits next month. That pot of cash only has about $5 billion left, though — far less than the roughly $9 billion needed to cover food aid through November.
Head Start
Federal funding will stop flowing Saturday to some early childhood education programs supported by Head Start, the Health and Human Services program that funds education, health and nutrition services for more than 800,000 children under the age of six.
More than 130 programs are set to miss federal funding, spanning 41 states and Puerto Rico, and serving about 59,000 children, according to the National Head Start Association, the nonprofit organization that represents the providers. Loss of federal funding means some teachers won’t get paid and some centers will close.
After funding first lapsed Oct. 1, Head Start programs serving about 6,500 children didn’t get their usual cash.
WIC nutrition assistance
The administration already buoyed funding earlier this month for the federal nutrition assistance program that serves about 7 million low-income mothers and babies by redirecting cash from an account that funds things like school breakfast and lunch programs.
But the coffers will dry up Saturday unless the Trump administration taps another $300 million in emergency cash for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC.
Essential Air Service
The Trump administration has warned that the Essential Air Service — which subsidizes airline service to small, often rural, communities — is likely to run out of funding over the weekend.
Some airlines serving Alaska and other remote areas of the country might have to increase airfare to have enough cash to pay staff in the absence of federal subsidies. Residents and businesses in hard-to-reach areas have been sensitive to disruptions in the program, especially after many airlines stopped operating out of small airports during the pandemic.
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If you’ve survived these 8 hardships, psychology says you’re stronger than most people ever will be – VegOut https://vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/k-if-youve-survived-these-8-hardships-psychology-says-youre-stronger-than-most-people-ever-will-be/
Life can be fucking hard sometimes. Even with the right internal tools, external factors can make them moot until something actionable can happen. Hardships are just as impermanent as our times of peace since the world works on its own accord around us. So, we'll get through, even if it takes some time.
Time to haul #DOGE to court. It itself is a #fraud and a #waste. Just 2 calls flagged out of 110,000!
Reason 586 why billionaires should NEVER be in charge of any #government function. They are #oblivious of #hardships faced by commoners.
“Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
#Bot #Quote #Afflictions #Friends #Friendship #Hardships #Relationships #Richelle #RichelleGoodrich #Trials
It isn't fair for me to be charged a "penalty" by my college because I have fallen into worse poverty and cannot even afford a daily allowance for college or for petrol. I needed them to extend my semester, but they insisted on a penalty of RM400. I believe I must pay this when I re-enter college in July. However, I have decided not to pay it immediately, but rather to have a conversation with the staff first to discuss the matters behind the penalties that justify them being charged to me, and why I am being penalized due to my hardship (poverty) and need for a hiatus. #StudentDebt #PovertyIsNotACrime #EducationForAll #KrisisKewanganPelajar #MahasiswaMalaysia #KenaikanYuran #AcademicExploitation #FightTheFee #EducationApartheid #WaiveTheFee #StopStudentPenalties #SolidarityNotFines #CostOfLivingCrisis #YouthInDebt #BrokenEducationSystem #MalaysiaBoleh #ReformasiPendidikan #Malaysia #MSU #MSUCollege #Education #Vent #Hardships
At an age of 19 this guy had moved out from his parents' place for the first time and ignored all rules, showed zero consideration for other people living in the apartment block, threw garbage out of the window and ended up provoking a police raid on my apartment on December 14th. A door got smashed in order to get hold of that little piece of shit.
And yes: went through a bastard of surgery on December 10th and still suffer from it. Festive season? Not for me, folks.
#life #hardships 2/2
Speaking of the #festiveseason: I could easily have done without the last 4 weeks.
As I've already reported I crashed hard with my road bike when doing groceries on November 26th.
On December 1st, my mother died after a three-month stay in a care center she hated profoundly.
On November 30th, a guy who would turn out to be an utterly reckless idiot moved into my apartment. Ten days later, I had no choice but to terminate the subletting contract without notice. #life #hardships 1/2
After four years in the making, Charlene has finished her new #novella and it is available as an e-book on Amazon! Buy yourself a copy or send it as a gift as it will help us in even the smallest way as we head into the holidays! 🎄🎁🎄Thanks!
Sister Dragon: a novella https://a.co/d/24nKKhB
#novella #dragon #adult #fantasy #childhood #adventure #struggle #drama #survivor #overcoming #hardships #victory
The major #political #transformation flying under the radar at the #DNC
The third night of the DNC confirmed just how #dramatically the party has #swung to the right on #immigration.
#Migrant #hardships don’t seem to be much of a concern this year
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/368138/dnc-immigration-border-security-latino-voters
A new #exhibit has opened up at the #MahSociety of #Edmonton, taking visitors through more than a century of #ChineseCanadian #history.
The Journey of the Horse was created by Sue Mah & Andrea Maru.
The two met on a #heritage tour in 2019 back to their #ancestral village in southern #China, where they both inspired to share their family’s history & the #hardships early #Chinese #settlers to #Canada experienced.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10513329/edmonton-chinese-history-exhibit/amp/
How a thriving #ChineseCommunity was built despite #racism & #hardships.
For the #Chinese community of #Newfoundland & #Labrador it's a thriving community built in spite of racism, hardship & #discriminatory government policy.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7204696
#AsianMastodon #ChineseDiaspora #ChineseCanadian #ChineseHistoryInCanada #ChineseImmigrants #ChinesePioneers
The #Hardships and Dreams of #AsianAmericans Living in #Poverty
USA [Travel writing reformatted for Instagram]
https://www.liminalweb.site/travel-writing-reformatted-for-instagram/
I used to hate creative writing in high school. Really detested it.
But I enjoyed writing letters to family and friends. I’d put a lot of effort into describing scenes and making them entertaining.
Then I discovered travelogues. Good travel writing. I thought, “I wouldn’t mind doing that — I travel and I can hold a […]
#1999 #appreciation #banking #food #hardships #Instagram #money #poverty #SanAntonio #Texas #UnitedStates
Children Who Survive Shootings Endure Huge Health Obstacles and Costs
The shooting survivors in the study — age 19 and younger — were found to be 68% more likely than other kids to have a psychiatric diagnosis and 144% as likely to develop a substance use disorder.
"People who die, they get funerals and balloon releases," said McClain, now 33. "Survivors don't get anything."
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/998413 #shootings #children #survival #firearms #hardships
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." — Rabindranath Tagore — — — #RabindranathTagore #quote #quotes #clouds #hardships #challenge #light #bright #storms #rainbows
Midnight thoughts on #success:
How do we #define success? For some it will be achieving a certain thing they’ve been working towards for a long time. For others it will be something as seemingly simple as getting out of bed.
Why is success such a hard thing to define? Because it is #unique to an #individual and to a #situation. There are no hard and fast rules definitively stating what success is and how to achieve it.
We don’t have any right to #judge others based on their success or lack thereof if we are using our own values as the metric against which someone else is being judged. We can admire their #achievements. We can encourage their #efforts. We can empathise with them in their #hardships. But we do not get to say what is or what isn’t a success because of how we regard it in our own lives.
Maybe success was getting to the end of this toot. Maybe it was finding 5 minutes to scroll on the socials. Maybe it was waking up in the first place.