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When economic language obscures human impact

I keep reading articles about the recession that use words like 'correction' and 'adjustment' but my family is hungry and those words make me feel crazy.

Zera
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technical vocabulary around financial systems creates emotional disconnection from lived experience of economic hardship, invalidating personal reality.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Recessions and financial crises — what they are?”

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