Panelists Urge Respect for Human Dignity as Nation Tackles Poverty
The Tablet March 2, 2021 A man in San Francisco sleeps on the sidewalk March 27, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters via CNS) NEW YORK — Lorena Melgarejo remembers a time after her husband died that she couldn’t always be there for her three-year-old child because she couldn’t lose her income. “I had to make the sacrifice to go out into the workplace so that I could pay for rent, pay for the debt that the hospital bills left, and pay for childcare for my child instead of being there to take care of my own child after the traumatic death of my ...
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