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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Never tried meth but I was homeless for a time. I can absolutely see why you’d flock to it if you live on the street.

    It’s not safe to sleep, even more so at night. Cops make a habit of stealing/destroying your stuff, and because of that other homeless people steal your shit. It makes you feel invincible, helps you ignore the cold, and 10 bucks keeps you high for 2 days.

    It’s all well and good to say don’t do drugs, but not having a place can really change your priorities in ways you’d never expect.





  • 12% of people are in poverty so 50% being low income sounds right. Especially cuz 60k a year is basically poverty in some parts of the country.

    About 9% of kids are “food insecure” meaning their household income is so low access to food is uncertain or limited.

    I wouldn’t have technically qualified as either poverty-stricken or food insecure as a child, but I sure felt poor and went to bed hungry sometimes.

    The numbers here may not be accurate, but the official numbers are bleak enough and certainly don’t tell the whole story.