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How to explain poverty's catch-22 to children

My teenage son asked why we cannot just move somewhere cheaper and I realized he does not understand that being poor costs more money than we already do not have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The counterintuitive economics of desperation challenge basic assumptions about choice and mobility.

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