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Why helping others doesn't guarantee your own security

I work at a nonprofit helping homeless people but I can't afford my own apartment and sleep in my car three nights a week.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The irony of being unable to afford the very security you work to provide others reveals the systemic nature of economic injustice.

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“Where Are You with Economic justice — what it requires?”

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