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I know I don’t truly understand what blood money really means, or what it is to offer up the vein, to be willing to give anything just to get by, but I have learned this: just because a story has utility doesn’t mean it’s false.

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Rumpus Original

The Other One Percent

I’m at NYU Dental waiting to get a cavity filled. I’m at NYU Dental because I’m poor, although if I were really poor — I am thinking — I wouldn’t…

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Politics

“The Unnameable Poor”

At Open Democracy, Adam Klein writes about income disparity, faith, and ethics. “The things we fear are the things for which gods and governments show no promise of resolving. Every…

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The Rumpus Interview with Tupelo Hassman

Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s stunning debut novel, follows Rory Dawn Hendrix through a rough childhood in the Calle. “Just north of Reno and just south of nowhere is a town full…

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Toward a New Discovery of Poverty

Barbara Ehrenreich looks back at Michael Harrington’s The Other America, and how the concept of a ‘culture of poverty,’ which became entwined with conservative ideology, has failed to address the…

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The Funny Women Interview with Amy Sedaris

Feeling down? Make a Self-Esteem Shell Collage! Write a poem on a piece of paper about you and the ocean and about how you feel about the ocean and why…

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Features & Reviews

poverty

Give Something, Get Something

The Other One Percent

“The Unnameable Poor”

The Rumpus Interview with Tupelo Hassman

Toward a New Discovery of Poverty

The Funny Women Interview with Amy Sedaris

The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

Continental Divide

The Political is the Personal

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