Time for People-Centered Policy

Time for People-Centered Policy

Like so many others, I knocked on a lot of doors this fall—each day my worry growing that the Democrats might come up short. In a trailer park in southern Pennsylvania, two white women seethed about “the border,” thousands of miles away and nowhere close to the cause of their economic precarity. A young Latino man in his early 20s, living in his mother’s house with his two kids underfoot, wanted so much to hear that something in this economy cou…