Like many in her shoes, the mother of six is losing faith in the system.
“I am an essential worker — I am needed, and look how they’re doing me,” Scott told me.
Personally, I don’t play the stock market but if I did, I’d be investing heavily in pitchfork manufacturers.
But the cataclysm of 2020′s pandemic and related shutdowns has taken America’s wealth gap from tragedy to farce.
After a steep dip in the spring — shuttered stores and factories and millions of jobless claims will do that, at least briefly — Wall Street bounced back and kept going.
But that’s only part of the dark underbelly of Wall Street’s daily highs.
Unlike Lisa Scott, she’d gotten her jobless claim processed quickly, and owning her own home in Collingswood has helped her get by. »
