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Courtney E. Martin

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Courtney is a weekly columnist for On Being, a Peabody Award-winning public radio conversation, podcast, and Webby Award-winning website. She is currently working on a book titled The New Better Off, exploring how people are redefining the American dream (think more fulfillment, community, and fun, less debt, status, and stuff).

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Opinion: California elders deserve better than funding hurdles, shuttered programs

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By Courtney E. Martin, Courtney Martin
| The Mercury News Verified
When my dad was young, he took off his own braces with pliers in the garage after his parents ran out of money to take him to the orthodontist. He answered the door for debt collectors, faking as if his parents weren’t home to avoid confrontations. He knew economic precarity in his tiny bones. It’s no wonder, really, he became a bankruptcy lawyer when he grew up.
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White Moms and the Paucity of Moral Imagination

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By Courtney E. Martin
| Ed Post Verified
When I was studying abroad in 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa, I lived with a Black family in Langa Township. Nokwezi, my host mother, had a great belly laugh, and her daughter, Nodidi, and I loved to listen to pop music and make up little dances. It was a joyful, loving, all-female household. After my initial culture shock of being a white American in a country re-making itself after the fall of apartheid, I reveled in it.
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By Courtney E. Martin
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