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When you fall into the gap between assistance and self-sufficiency

I make too much money for most programs but not enough to actually live and I feel invisible in this space between poor enough and stable enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The liminal space between qualifying for help and not needing it creates a form of economic purgatory.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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