, the income-driven repayment plan that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.
These days, a man comes on a boat during the week to sell them the things they used to be able to grow or raise for themselves. Houses have collapsed around them.Wahidah says she knows about 40 people who have left, moving to other parts of Java that haven’t permanently flooded yet.
“I think the younger generation should move. If they have money they should buy land. But I don’t have money right now, so I stay,” she says.Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)Sukarman walks on a flooded pathway outside his house in Timbulsloko, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Crabs scuttle through the water where Sukarman’s yard used to be.Sukarman has lived in the village for most of his life, working as a handyman and staying close to his family. He’s raised his house and the land around it two times, but the floods still come into the house. He says he gave up trying to raise the land again.
“We’ve already done it twice and it hasn’t worked, so what else can we do?” he says.
He says the government has helped with donations of food and advice on where villagers might be able to move. But the government hasn’t been able to stop the flooding.KNOWLES: Some of them can be detrimental, and I go into detail about that because I realize that a teacher telling me that Beyoncé was slow in kindergarten and that she needs to repeat the grade and it’s December — that woman could have messed up my child’s life. We wouldn’t even have a Beyoncé today if I had listened to her.
You gotta fight for your kids. I hope that lesson came through loud and clear. … That was important to me because I see a lot of parents that don’t, and my mom didn’t protect me.Tina Knowles-- entrepreneur, fashion designer, philanthropist and mother of Beyoncé and Solange-- has released a book, ‘Matriarch: A Memoir,’ and says being chosen for Oprah’s Book Club is “a great way to start it off.” (April 22)
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