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Andrea Louise Campbell

Andrea Louise Campbell is professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Trapped in America’s Safety Net: One Family’s Struggle.

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I didn’t know how broken America’s safety net was until my sister-in-law became paralyzed.

By Andrea Louise Campbell