"This is the current edition in a running series of dispatches by New York Review writers that is documenting the coronavirus outbreak with updates from around the world that began March 17–22 and has continued through March 23–29, March 30–April 5, and April 6–12. Dan Chiasson in Wellesley • Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Fire Island • Miranda Popkey., April 15, 2020. WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS—Tuesday morning and, as usual, I’m watching a head bob before a verdant if patchily rendered digital landscape. I’m on Zoom, of course, along with a hundred and twenty or so other anti-hunger advocates from across the state of Massachusetts. For the past year and a half, I’ve worked part-time at a small nonprofit embedded within a much larger nonprofit, first in data entry and now in childcare solutions and case management. Our focus is workforce development: we match clients with and pay for job training. ..."
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Dash, top, and Dish, bottom, live with their mother Darling in a shelter apartment in Dorchester while Darling studies to be a nurse, Boston, Massachusetts, March 27, 2020; recently, Darling lost her job and her food stamps are running out. On any given night, roughly 12,000 people are without homes across Massachusetts.
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