In 1992, my mother worked full-time as a nurse and attended school full-time at Northwestern. She was a single mom with four kids, and we lived with my grandmother, who worked at a medical parts factory full-time on the city's South Side.

My mom worked sometimes 50-60 hours/week, and still, under the economic pressure of a failing system, she didn’t always have enough money to pay bills and buy food.

That never made sense to me.

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Over 17 million households in the United States (one of the richest countries in the world) experience food insecurity each year.

According to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve, 30% of Americans would not be able to cover a $400 emergency expense. I went back to school to study finance and economics to understand where money is spent, where it comes from, and how it is distributed across the country.

Source: NPR

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