What She Left Behind

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

A 1926 U.S. Eugenics poster claimed “Some people are born to be a burden on the rest,” and reminded people that every sixteen seconds a person is born and one hundred dollars of their money goes toward the care of persons with bad heredity, such as the insane, feeble-minded, criminals, and other defectives.

sounds like where we are heading again, 100 years later.