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EDITORS/PUBLISHERS Jen Angel • Jason Kucsma CONSULTING EDITOR Joshua Breitbart from your editors CULTURE EDITOR PEOPLE EDITOR Who is working in America? And if you are working, maybe the questions should be - what Sarah Palmer Keidra Chaney kind of job are you working? Like the woman on the cover, slinging donuts for Krispy ECONOMICS EDITOR POUTICS EDITORS Kreme, are you working a service-industry job? Do you have medical benefits? Are you Arthur Stamoulis Madeleine Baran & represented by a union? Do you even like your job? So you see. without getting too deep Amanda Luker into economic analysis and speculation (hey, that's what we have the Economist and MEDIA EDITOR Catherine Komp REVIEW EDITOR Dollars & Sense for), there's plenty to talk about on the subject of "work.'' Keith McCrea PROOFREADERS As soon as we sat down to write this letter, song lyrics we wanted to quote easily came to Belinda Brown. Elliot Adams. Hal Hixson. Scott mind. 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