Why I Picked Up a Hitchhiker

Here’s the deal. I live just outside the city described as having “the highest share of citizens living in poverty in the nation” and “the country’s largest share of residents living in poverty, barely edging out Flint, Mich” and  “41.3 percent of its residents living below the poverty line, Reading,Pa., is the poorest U.S. city.” And it’s impossible to step out of my home and not […]