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How Do You Keep Showing Up When You’re Running on Empty?
There's a kind of strength we don't talk about enough—the strength it takes to keep showing up for work when the odds are stacked against you.
Take Saheed Adebay Aare, for example. Every evening around 5 p.m., Saheed left the shelter where he was staying in New York City and began a long, exhausting commute to his job at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, New Jersey. The trip took hours—buses, trains, and transfers across bridges and boroughs—all so he could clock in for a short, four-hour shift.
How does a thriving economy lead to more homelessness?
When most people think about homelessness, they think about poverty. It makes sense: if someone doesn't have money, they don't have housing.
So there must be a correlation between disadvantaged communities and the number of residents who fall into homelessness, right? And if that’s the case, why is there so much homelessness in cities that also have experienced economic success like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City?