The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor Highlight

then is almost too horrific to contemplate. All these people who cared for children in their own homes were infrastructure, every bit as important as roads and bridges and farms and power lines. Their personal willingness to risk their health in order to keep taking those kids in every day allowed America to stave off a level of chaos that would have been much, much worse than what we experienced.