Hard Working And Poor In America

Guardian UK: Porn, opioids and a freezer full of cigarettes: what one cleaner saw in America’s homes by Sian Cain

She would shop for groceries at night, to avoid the gaze of fellow shoppers; one man, after seeing the food stamps in her hand, shouted: “You’re welcome,” as if he was personally paying for her to eat.

In one house she dubbed the Porn House, she tries to figure out the lives of its owners: the husband with his Hustler magazines and lube always out on display in his bedroom, the wife’s extensive collection of romance novels in hers.