'What kind of world is out there waiting for [our children]? We live in a country with no guaranteed health insurance, no federally mandated sick pay or parental leave, and with a social safety net made of fraying cheesecloth.'
, my daughter and her friends had planned an afterparty and an early morning drive down to the Jersey shore to see the sunrise. Instead, she sits beside me on the couch, huddled in a blanket, catching up on Trevor Noah’s Daily Social Distancing Show.
But what kind of world is out there waiting for them? We live in a country with no guaranteed health insurance, no federally mandated sick pay or parental leave, and with a social safety net made of fraying cheesecloth. Pervasive sexism and racism, as well as Himalayan levels of wealth inequality, shatter the myth of American meritocracy.
An aspiring chemistry major, my daughter understands the epidemiological necessity of Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home order and expresses little resentment. But she did hope to get a summer job working at the local library. It remains “closed until further notice.”
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