In housing, humble can mean health risk: farm workers' trailer parks often unsafe, but alternatives are scarce

National Catholic Reporter, August 29, 2003 by Arthur Jones

Mused Nolan, "I think the Anglos' experience of the United States is much different from the non-Anglos'. Anglos live lives of unconscious privilege."

"The gospel mandate as Jesus states it is you shall love your neighbor as yourself, and that," she said, "surrounds all the division and inequality. It gives context to the entirety, to the need, and to the way ahead. Those who are not poor have a moral obligation to take care of the poor. And I relate that to what I have been seeing and discovering."

Arthur Jones is NCR editor at large. His e-mail address is arthurjones@attbi.com

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