[Reader-list] Is it now a crime to be poor?

[Monica Narula]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09ehrenreich.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Is it now a crime to be poor?
By BARBARA EHRENREICH
Published: August 8, 2009
IT’S too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when  
it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in  
a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor,  
you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities  
of life — like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering.

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Monica Narula
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