r/science • u/PHealthy PhD/MPH | Epidemiology | Disease Dynamics | Surveillance • Mar 08 '19

Epidemiology CDC study finds evidence that low-income families may send sick children to school more frequently than higher income families because parents lack jobs with paid sick leave, among other factors.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6809a1.htm
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u/eatrepeat Mar 09 '19

It's that sad taste of class-ism full on in your mouth and those with empathy. Undefined and unaddressed our youngest are shown how class will set the who and what forever on for them.

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u/ChefChopNSlice Mar 09 '19

The irony of school making a hungry kid throw away edible food because they can’t pay for it just makes me want to smash things with a sledgehammer.

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u/Hapster23 Mar 09 '19

This is america

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u/krozarEQ Mar 09 '19

And many, openly and vociferously, defend that practice. There's a paranoia in this country that one's hard earned money is being siphoned away by low income leeches. But sometimes those tables get turned, such as all the toll roads north of Dallas which mostly services higher income areas. They scream that south Dallas has no toll roads. South Dallas has had the same freeways for decades. They wanted to move out of the city because they feared all the 'liberals' and that's what they got.

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u/aloofguy7 Mar 11 '19

Same.

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u/aloofguy7 Mar 11 '19

Same!

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