s man with a cardboard sign at a Wichita intersection.
If your life was a mess, we thought, you brought it on yourself. You got what you had coming to you. We didn’t buy excuses. Either you had your act together or you didn’t.
My family didn’t have its act together, of course, but then plenty of middle- and upper-class families didn’t either. The difference was that we stood to pay more for our errors than did wealthier Americans who made the same mistakes.
If you work every day and still can’t afford what you need, is it worse to steal a little from a big store owned by billionaires than to be a billionaire who underpays his employees? Is it worse to do business under the table wi
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Sarah Smarsh