Indiana Van wreck shines light on plight of the poor [View all]

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"The super-rich and the middle class. We’ll hear a lot about both groups as we spend the next year riding the wave of nonsense toward the 2016 presidential election.

What we won’t hear about is the poor. The kind of people who pile into a van with bald tires and a wooden bumper. The kind of people who will do any kind of work they can find in desperate hope of bettering their situation."

....Two people were killed and 22 were injured when a packed 1994 Dodge van blew a tire and flipped over near the Fort Branch exit of Interstate 69 just after 3:30 p.m.

Killed were Gena Moise, 60, and 19-year-old Christela Georges. Georges was pregnant. Her child, forcibly born three months premature, was in critical condition as of Friday night.

Most, if not all of the passengers, are, and were, Haitian immigrants."



http://www.courierpress.com/news/columnists/webb-van-wreck-shines-light-on-plight-of-the-poor_22553033