It doesn’t have to be this way. Ours doesn’t have to be a society where people clocking sixty hours a week aren’t paid enough to meet their basic needs; or where parents have to sell their plasma or food stamps or go without electricity in order to keep their children housed; or where your ability to afford an apartment is contingent on winning a voucher “lottery” and spending years on a waitlist, only to then lose the voucher when no landlord will accept it. In the richest country on earth, nobody—whether they work or have a disability or struggle with addiction or mental health
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