Friday, January 24, 2014

Trip Home to Mich (4 of 5): Impoverished county.



When I was home, the state released statistics that showed that 22% of kids in the county live in poverty.

The head of the local library told me that, and also said that she speaks up against state emergency managers all the time.

“When I studied in Czechoslovakia, people would tell me about how things were different when they had a government that they could elect.  And now that’s happening here!  You can’t tell me that that’s different, it's the same damn thing here,” she was like.

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