• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    25·
    16 days ago

    Then she added one more layer of data — where people were getting help paying their electric bills each summer, from public programs or local organizations.

    An obvious pattern emerged. There were big clusters of dots collected in certain areas: lots of deaths, and little assistance.

    Those clusters turned out to be mobile home parks.

    Yup, the poor are first under the bus.

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      16 days ago

      We’re the first ones to starve, we’re the first ones to die

      The first ones in line for that pie in the sky

      And we’re always the last when the cream is shared out

      For the worker is working when the fat cat’s about

      And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war

      Who’s given a gun and then pushed to the fore

      And expected to die for the land of our birth

      Though we’ve never owned one lousy handful of earth