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Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

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Child Protection Services can get all up in your business if you have kids. Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

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You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job.

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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

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If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to accept trauma with certain groups, like with soldiers, for instance - we understand that they face trauma and that trauma can be connected to things like depression or acts of violence later on in life.

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When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?

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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.

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These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

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Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

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A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: Unknown

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