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When Your Body Becomes Your Economic Prison

My back is destroyed from years of manual labor but I cannot afford to stop working and I cannot afford physical therapy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical decline and economic necessity have locked the person into a cycle of accelerating damage.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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