One person’s lack of access to medical care is cause for a fundraiser, but thirty million people without health insurance is a ‘choice’ that needs to be protected. One teenager from a disadvantaged background who gets to go to Harvard is a triumph; the systematic increase of student debt and exclusion of large chunks of the population from public higher education is necessary belt-tightening. If we want to genuinely change people’s behaviour… [what we need is] a lot more ways to understand the experiences of large groups of people and to alter the social, political and economic systems that shape their lives.

~ Deb Chachra

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