The poor get poorer
James Patrick Kelly's Standing in Line with Mr. Jimmy is a story that has stuck with me. Our hero is a feckless youth on the dole. In the course of the story, he discovers that he's truly trapped -- an open secret that he and his friends hadn't been privy to is that once you've been on the dole, you become untouchable to employers. It was capricious, and cruel, and believeable.
Today, the LA Times has a story about a trend of people being denied jobs because they have bad credit.
With a policy like that being applied indiscriminately, once you're behind on your bills, how are you ever going to get out?
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