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Satellite dishes grow off the sides of North Philadelphia rowhouses like mushrooms.The city once tried to restrict them for being unsightly, without success.But their ubiquity in low-income neighborhoods makes some observers wonder: If people enjoy amenities like satellite and cable service, how poor can they be?

Conservatives such as highly influential Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., ask that question often enough that it’s regularly repeated on right-leaning TV and radio.

They declare that low-income Americans are doing relatively well because they have air conditioners, cellphones, big-screen TVs, and other items that the poor in sub-Saharan Africa or elsewhere in the Third World live without.

“A poor child in America is far more likely to have a widescreen plasma television, cable or satellite TV, a computer and an Xbox in his home than he is to be hungry,” Rector and Rachel Sheffield wrote. They reported that about two-thirds of poor families have cable or satellite TV.

Mark Rank labeled that theory “pseudo-social science — a joke.” You can watch The Real Housewives of New York, the professor of social welfare at Washington University in St. Louis said, and still be victimized by a lack of food, poor education, low wages, and crumbling houses.

“It’s extraordinarily irresponsible for people with privilege to argue that a Philadelphia family be denied basic communications and entertainment because they’re poor,” said Hannah Sassaman, policy director at Media Mobilizing Project, a West Philadelphia communications company that helps the disadvantaged. “We live in a world that’s digital.”

Besides, said Kate Goodman, a community organizer for the Free Library of Philadelphia in Kensington, just because a satellite dish hangs from a house, “it doesn’t mean it’s hooked up.”

One largely misunderstood aspect of poverty is that people are constantly moving in and out of it. The Financial Diaries Study by New York University demonstrated that volatility: In a month’s time, a family’s income could spike, then dip, without warning. So, if dish service makes sense in May, it can become out of the question by June.
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wack a$s article. dont these stupid fu*ks realize that alot of people have amenities such as cable and internet to help compensate for other luxuries they truly cant afford such as travel, partying, nice cars etc? do these fu*ks think if youre low income you should be staring at four empty walls in your crib?


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