Sublime

If the same resources have to be shared among more people, some of them at least should end up with less. If children do not suffer, who does? One possible answer is the mother.

“Racist”

more sanity, at work.

But it also depends on whether she can find a job, her freedom to divorce, and her survival options in the case of divorce.

Little girls, she argued, were worth nothing more than the medals they could win, so they were starved, abused, and used to keep their bodies and skills perfect—like “pretty boxes.”

Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along with instability, eviction also causes loss. Families lose not only their home, school, and neighborhood but also their possessions: furniture, clothes, books. It takes a good…

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while most Americans might not be able to tell the difference between me, a forty-one-year-old first-generation Korean immigrant raised in an educated middle-class household, and the first-generation undocumented immigrant from Fujian Province who delivers their meals, that doesn’t mean some bond has been forged out of this misunderstanding.

I was just a common soak.