Hillbilly Elegy
police cruiser. I’d seen her get arrested before, but I knew that this time was different. We were in the system now, with socia ...
grandmother was an untrained caretaker without a foster license. If things went poorly for my mother in the courts, I was as lik ...
informal: Mamaw would kill anyone who tried to keep me from her. This worked for us because Mamaw was a lunatic and our entire f ...
require occupational licensing for foster parents—just like nurses and doctors— even when the would-be foster parent is a grandm ...
There are other things we can do. We can build policies based on a better understanding of what stands in the way of kids like m ...
thanks at least in part to the old-age benefits that Mamaw generously shared with me. These programs are far from perfect, but t ...
shot of getting a college degree.” Another said: “The violence and the fighting, it’s all they’ve seen from a very young age. On ...
these kids is what happens (or doesn’t happen) at home. For example, we’d recognize that Section 8 vouchers ought to be administ ...
a different lifestyle model, and the lower-income kids start to rise up.” Yet when Middletown recently tried to limit the number ...
Certainly not from Mamaw, who demanded good grades, nor from Papaw. But it was there, and studies now show that working-class bo ...
have consumed me. I learned early to spread my money out lest Mom or someone else find it and “borrow” it— some under the mattre ...
cut me off. I honked, the guy flipped me off, and when we stopped at a red light (with this guy in front of me), I unbuckled my ...
kept the school bully from messing with me, connected me to my mother when some man or his children insulted her (even if I agre ...
for teaching that asshole a lesson about defensive driving. ...
Conclusion Shortly before Christmas last year, I stood in the kids’ section of a Washington, D.C., Walmart, shopping list in han ...
managed to find fault with nearly every suggestion. Pajamas? Poor people don’t wear pajamas. We fall asleep in our underwear or ...
I grew up in a world where everyone worried about how they’d pay for Christmas. Now I live in one where opportunities abound for ...
there’s always Toys for Tots. During the past few Christmas seasons, I’ve found myself in large department stores, buying toys f ...
consider just how lucky I am. Still, shopping for low-income kids reminds me of my childhood and of the ways that Christmas gift ...
for a big paycheck at the end of the year, and then he’ll get a ton of stuff.” These excuses were meant to mask what everyone kn ...
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