Reality-Based Engineering: Why The Poor Pay More

Monday, May 25, 2009

Why The Poor Pay More

Excellent WaPo Article on the actual costs of poverty

1 Comments:

At Tue Jul 28, 01:00:00 AM EDT, Gumbinator said...: The say everything is more expensive for the poor. I remember thinking "being poor takes up a lot of time." You've got to take the bus, clean your own dishes, earn the rent, refill the meter, fill out the rebate form ...

I'm a liberal chemical engineer swimming in a sea of right-wingers. My cohorts and I (The Gumbinator, Lemon-Lyman and Johnny K-Street) will post about such things as "green" science and engineering, other engineering/IT and how they may relate to politics and economics, and economic issues such as tax policy and government transparency. Electoral stuff too. Of course, I'll bash the Bushies...