Mother Jones: The Struggle to Tax the Rich Isn’t Done Yet—In Some States It’s Actually Happening
media mentionUnder an overcast sky, Patty Flores led a group of colleagues to an empty lot in the mobile home park where she lived. A bare patch of grass traced the outline of a home set ablaze in an electrical fire.
She saw it as a symptom of a larger problem, one that connected to her rising rent, the potholes pockmarking the street, and the paradox that taking another job to cover the extra rent would require child care that she couldn’t afford.