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A Big-Box-Store Allegory

2024-02-09    

A generation ago, Potterstown fostered a solid working class, but its current young adults have few prospects for stability. Half the people working on Town Square’s Movement team (formerly Logistics, and based in the store’s adjoining warehouse) live, as 23-year-old Nicole did until recently, with their mother or grandmother. Nicole’s mother likes to remind her that, in her 20s, she was already married and a homeowner, markers of security that held steady even when the local job market tanked. For Nicole, who has a baby and a fiancé, prospects feel more limited.

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