“Paper Girl” by Beth Macy

“Paper Girl” by Beth Macy

Urbana, Ohio, was not a utopia when our guest today grew up there in the ’70s and ’80s. But, despite her family’s poverty, Urbana had a healthy economy and thriving schools. Though she left for college on a Pell Grant and then a faraway career in journalism, she still clung gratefully to the place that had helped raise her.But as Macy’s mother’s health declined in 2020, Macy returned to find much of the work that once supported the middle class …