How the CARES Act Hurts Low-Wage Workers
Employees of big retailers have become the backbone of American life under Coronavirus quarantine. But even a new paid-leave law doesn't protect them.
Lauren Sandler
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Lauren Sandler is an award-winning journalist whose essays and features have appeared in Time, The New York Times, Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The Guardian, New York Magazine, Elle, among other publications. 'This Is All I Got', a book of narrative nonfiction about a young homeless mother in New York, will be published by Random House in April. She is also the author of the bestselling 'One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child,' and 'The Joy of Being One and Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement.' She lives in Brooklyn.
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I Wanted Joan Didion’s Heart to Be Messy
Many of us expect our women writers to lay their emotions bare. But as this excerpt from 'Slouching Toward Los Angeles' reveals, emotion does not define meaning for California's native daughter—and that can be a hard lesson.