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Jan 2023
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16| Poverty is a policy choice.

Ismatu Gwendolyn
About this episode

Introductions to a month-long series about poverty eradication, labor rights, and reproductive justice. Partnered with a fundraiser to help agricultural production for indigenous folks in Sierra Leone!

Link to donate: gogetfunding.com/ismatu-gwendolyn

Read the full essay: substack.ismatu.com

SOURCES

2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, linked in article

Portela, J. (2021, January 15). 70% of the world lives on less than ten dollars a day. when do they get the vaccine? Stanford Politics. Retrieved January 9, 2023, from https://stanfordpolitics.org/2021/01/14/70-of-the-world-lives-on-less-than-ten-dollars-a-day-when-do-they-get-the-vaccine/

World Bank Group. (2018, October 17). Nearly half the world lives on less than $5.50 a day. World Bank. Retrieved January 9, 2023, from https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/10/17/nearly-half-the-world-lives-on-less-than-550-a-day

How much money per day does the average person live on? Cultural World. (2023, January 8). Retrieved January 9, 2023, from https://www.culturalworld.org/how-much-money-per-day-does-the-average-person-live-on.htm

Creamer, J. (2021, December 9). Inequalities persist despite decline in poverty for all major race and Hispanic origin groups. Census.gov. Retrieved January 9, 2023, from https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/09/poverty-rates-for-blacks-and-hispanics-reached-historic-lows-in-2019.html

Jazz Music of the Episode:

Tezetayé Antchi Lidj (Baby, My Unforgettable Remembrance) x Mulatu Astatke

Whisky Story Time x Alabaster DePlume

Cicada Season x Fuubutsushi

Lena's Songs The Sweet Enoughs

Michelle x Yusef Lateef

The Single Petal of a Rose x Ben Webster

These Foolish Things x Lester Young

Easy Living x Clifford Brown

Love Song from "Apache" x Coleman Hawkins Quartet

Manhattan x BLOSSOM DEARIE



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