The Chicago Reporter
Dr. William A. Darity Jr. was recently quoted in an op-ed by Saeed Richardson discussing perceptions of homelessness.
In the report by the Poor People’s Campaign, Darity challenges the status quo perspective on homelessness. “Indeed, close to half the individuals who are homeless in the United States actually have jobs: the problem is the jobs pay very poorly.”
He continues his discussion about the working poor by exposing how the reality that uncertainty of hours, fluctuations in payment and salaries, and absence of quality work environments perpetuate and pull people into “toxic conditions” of homelessness.
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