'If lawmakers want to cut taxes for corporations and the rich, then they'd better do the right thing and give ordinary working families a boost, too. A little help makes all the difference in the world.'
of tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, my 12-year-old son's bike broke. It felt like just another thing I couldn't fix for him.
I know what it's like to pull myself up by my bootstraps—I've had to do it again and again. But I also know how far even a little help can go. I dropped out of school to get more jobs and scraped together enough to pay for rent, apply for Pell grants, and get back into school. But when I got back together with my husband during a period of sobriety for him, we ended up worse off than before. He lost our money and the car, leaving me with car payments and no transportation.
It meant everything. I got into Stanford's Ph.D. program in neuroscience, where I got childcare subsidies on campus, a full-tuition scholarship, and campus jobs.
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