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Shoring Up Our Community Quilt

Why We Must Rethink the Social Safety Net

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Michelle Lasley
Mar 17, 2025
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been naming we need to shore up our community quilt. I wanted to spend a few minutes here digging into what I mean by that.

First, everything in our world is a social construct. It is a social construct; people made this and reinforced it, saying that we have to pay for things - housing, utilities, food, water, etc. So, if i…

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