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The Huffington Post, December 16, 2015: (Op-Ed) The Unseen Mobility of the Working Poor

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“That’s why FII has been dedicated to collecting monthly data from working poor families over a period of years. Victor’s ideas ring true in our data: data from FII families reveals tremendous drive and innovation in the face of obstacles or scarcity. The next time you see the statistic that there are ’45 million people stuck in poverty’ be skeptical about the word ‘stuck’. It brings up images of ‘generational poverty,’ the ‘culture of poverty,’ and ‘welfare queens.’ It is an image that invokes helplessness.”

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