Let’s Kick a Slothful Poor Person This Thanksgiving
Linda Tirado, author of “Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America,” is the perfect guide.
A waitress prepares to pick up an order during lunch hour at a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013.
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Now that we’ve enjoyed the latest jobs report -- nonfarm payrolls grew, blablabla; unemployment is down to 5.8 percent, hahaha -- let’s visit with the invisible people, the barely employed who labor so far from the halls of power they could be microbes on Mars.
Linda Tirado is the perfect guide. The author of “Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America” defines BAD, as in bad teeth, bad habits (smoker!), bad language, bad choices.