Hey, it's Anna.

So one way that life continues to be strange is how looking at headlines about how the economy

is going can lead you to wildly different conclusions.

Like are you noticing the price of things going up, like your rent and grocery bills, or

are you feeling void by the low unemployment rate?

More generally, are you feeling stable?

Are you moving up?

Are you falling behind?

Glass is one word we use to describe that idea of how our identities overlap with how

much money we've got access to.

Back in 2018, we did a big series about how you notice and describe where you fall when

it comes to class.

We called the series Opportunity Costs.

We made it with Buzzfeed News and explored how class, of course, is not just about money.

There's also your racial background and access to generational wealth, or your access to

healthcare, as we explored with two friends divided by the fertility treatments they

could and could not afford.

And also access to good fortune, as we heard in a conversation between a South Asian

American immigrant father and his son talking together about the wealth in their family

in the American dream.

And then there is our romantic relationships.

In the episode we're sharing today, you'll meet a woman who fell down the class ladder

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