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Katie McDonough
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Senior editor, Jezebel

Taking classes might work against her, actually. It depends on the type of visa she used to enter the US. Tourist and Student visas are different and have different rules. If she came here on a tourist visa and overstayed and is now considered a ‘student’, she’d have to apply for a switch. This will likely require Read more

I am so, so sorry. I’m sure living in this kind of limbo/the stress is disastrous for your health. It’s terrible and goes beyond the abuse. Again, I’m sorry and I hope it doesn’t drag on. Read more

I was in my third year of working for a landscaping company and my supervisor told me that he put me in for a $1/hour raise. That would have bumped me up to $9/hour (my first raise ever with them!), but when the boss responded, he only gave me 25 cents. Read more

It’s really simple, unless you work for an entity/business that trumpets to the heavens that they offer equal pay for equal work, they don’t. Read more

Since the man is a citizen maybe she can apply for a green card, since she is undocumentes my guess is that she need to ask for a pardon in order to get a green card, but doing it by yourself can be tricky, so she needs an immigration lawyer, I just hope she can find one who is willing to help her via pro bono, since Read more

Still, when you are undocumented or if you have a non resident visa, you can not apply for anything, for people like us there are not social services, not victim services, not help at all, it just adds to the burden.
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Thank you for sharing this story. As a board member for our local domestic violence and sexual assault organization, some of the things I struggle explaining to my network are exactly what you highlight here: Read more

“I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but, you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly, that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”

“I don’t know what it means to be complicit” [proceeds to demonstrate exactly what it fucking means to be Read more

I dunno, maybe look it up. Pay someone to look it up and then explain it. Read more

I was working for a Fortune 500 company in an executive position. We were “relocating” the department to a smaller, lower cost of living, state (although select executives deemed “critical” such as myself, we allowed to remain in corporate HQ). Initially they did not want to release salary information to me, but Read more