Jax
Facts:
- Married mother of two
- Was homeless for years, now lives in subsidized housing
- Unemployed, because finding a job requires childcare and other resources she simply doesn't have
- Husband is a union employee, with health insurance
Her attitude about it:
- Poverty takes energy, and requires constant vigilance and education
- It costs money to have nothing
- It requires gratitude, a community, the openness of others
- Others just don’t get it
Her advice:
- You have to be resourceful
- You have to find community
- You can never stop
