Depending on Government in an Emergency No Fun, Turns Out

You know what sounds EXTREMELY NOT FUN? Being at the mercy of the NYC emergency shelter system! Being moved from schools to armories to hotels in the middle of the night! Maybe or maybe not getting food assistance! This NYT article about the mess ends with an 11-year-old girl asking her father, who lost his home for his family of seven and his business to support them in the storm, “Daddy, don’t you hate your life?”

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