America's Poor Are Its Most Generous Givers »
“The generosity of poor people isn’t so much rare as rarely noticed, however. In fact, America’s poor donate more, in percentage terms, than higher-income groups do, surveys of charitable giving show. What’s more, their generosity declines less in hard times than the generosity of richer givers does.”
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The High Cost Of Poverty: Why The Poor Pay More »
You have to be rich to be poor.
That’s what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don’t understand.
Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion, menace. This is a fact of life that reality television and magazines don’t often explain.
So we’ll explain it here. Consider this a primer on the economics of poverty.
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Getting to know Tumbloggers.
I usually don’t participate in Tumblr memes, but I don’t know a lot of my Tumblr friends, so I thought this was a good idea.
Reblog/ Fill this out so people know who you are.
Name: Morgan Autumn Levy
Nickname: m0, Morgs (h8), Morgo, that’s about it. I prefer that people use my given name.
Tumblr Name: morganautumn
Age: 22
Birthday: September 13, 1986
Location: Nashville, TN
Current school/job: Graduated from Belmont University in 2006. My current job is marketing for Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing/GreatWorshipSongs.com. And I run Nashvillest.com which takes up increasingly more and more of my life.
High school: I was homeschooled.
Status: Is it bad that when I read this, I think in terms of Facebook/Twitter status and not relationship status? Anyway, not single, coming up on two years, wow.
Hobbies/Interests: Teh internets, marketing, many forms of media & entertainment, coffee, traveling, reading, cooking, RSS, making things, fixing toilets & sinks, vegetables.
Do you smoke/drink: no/yes.
Favorite Tumblr blogger: ariahfine! I don’t really follow all the trendy Tumblrs, but apparently Ariah is like a Tumblr celebrity now.
Why Tumblr?: Joined when it launched for a moblog, used it as such for a few years, got a blackberry without a camera phone at which point I started using it as a tumblog, now I have a camera phone again and use it for anything I feel like using it for.
Things I Should Have Tumblr’d About, But I Didn’t:
- The Swell Season at The Ryman
- Iron & Wine at The Ryman
- Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity tour in Chicago
- Lisa Hannigan at The Belcourt
- Fancy Earth Hour party
- Ben Folds at The Ryman
- Flight of the Conchords at The Ryman, aka Best Night Of My Life
- T.I. at Rites of Spring
- The Flaming Lips at Rites of Spring
- Probably some other stuff
To make up for it, here is a photo of my Death Cab For Cutie tickets for next month.
