“No one avoided the unneccessay expenditures such as the occasional trip to the Dairy Queen, or a pair of stylish new sneakers for the son who might otherwise sell drugs to get them.”
“No one avoided the unneccessay expenditures such as the occasional trip to the Dairy Queen, or a pair of stylish new sneakers for the son who might otherwise sell drugs to get them.”
Kathryn Edin, assistant professor of sociology, on her study of single mothers forced to spend more than their acknowledged incomes (The New York Times, Oct. 18)
