For a lot of people who have met me in the past decade or so, it might seem like I don’t know anything about poverty first-hand. After all, I’m a white, stay-at-home mom in the suburbs. It doesn’t get more stereotypically middle-class and conventional than that. But regular readers know I am anything but conventional. […]
I am beyond mad about The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to deny class-action status to the women suing Walmart for sex discrimination. The suit — representing 1.6 million women who worked at the company from 1998 — was the largest class-action suit in American history. In their 5-4 opinion (which outlined future restrictions on class-action […]
May 9, 2012
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