LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
ing him to grapple with wounds
that go beyond the physical. “It’s
hard,” Beavers says. “I’m just trying to get back into things.”
Arthur Delaney has documented the lives and struggles of those
caught in a different epidemic—
long-term unemployment. In this
issue, he tells the story of Stephen
LaRoque, the North Carolina representative who helped engineer a
Republican standoff that stopped
47,000 unemployed North Carolinians from receiving their
checks. One of those was Kathryn
Treadway, an unemployed mother
of two, who wrote to LaRoque
asking for help. As Delaney writes,
LaRoque’s &Wǒ