Barack Obama

because we are a longtime union working family descended from laborers and farmworkers. i am grateful for my many early union jobs because as a single parent, i earned a bit more than most folks in my neighborhood and was able to provide a good little home for my daughter and i. we had health care, too. it was a fucked up job, but i was willing to be a cog in the wheel to keep a decent roof over our heads, drive a 2nd hand used, but safe vehicle, pay for day care, preschool, tutoring, etc. it's when i left the unions and took a non profit job that our lives became more of a day to day, paycheck to paycheck struggle. but, somehow, despite it all, we made it.