What So Many People Dont Get About the U.S. Working Class

[elleng]

'My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was often short on food money. They were evicted from apartment after apartment.'>>>

https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

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[Still Sensible]

1. An excellent piece

It doesn't say we need to abandon our social issues principles, but rather we need to address what used to be one of our bread and butter constituencies.

[nashville_brook]

2. this is a fantastic article.

the part about the Head Start teacher not being able to afford child care for her own children is especially poignant. it's the result of nonsensical barriers put up for working people. this manufactures bitterness, and dooms our social programs to fail.