Our Sick, Our Tired, Our Poor
Fresh out of college one of my first stories was about homelessness in America. Robert Hayes was a brilliant young attorney at the blueblood law firm Sullivan and Cromwell who left his job to found the Coalition For The Homeless in New York City. Hayes reminded me of ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, who I was introduced to by Jean Stein and Katrina vanden Heuvel in the laste 70s. I started my biography of Roger Baldwin with my Princeton "The Individual and The State". Hayes and Baldwin are two men who truly left a signature on our culture. The deinstitutionalization of many mental patients in the Reagan years left a dark scar on our nation. America continues to struggle with this today. What ever happened to our sick, our tired and our poor? #homeless #motherjones #writerslife
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