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explicit language. Welcome to the Double-Ex Gap Fest for Thursday, September 4th, the Phil

the Derndal edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen in the DC studio, and I'm joined in New York by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And also Noreen Malone in editor at New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. Before we get going, I want to respond to some of our listeners.

June, the email this week was full of love for your voice.

It was basically I would do anything that June tells me to do.

So I think we should make them do some stuff, really.

We should come up with stuff.

Could they do my homework for me?

Exactly.

We could do better than that. But I want to read a letter

from Rick Alfaro who responded to the segment on low-age workers and unpredictable work hours.

And he writes, in my mind, the big problem is not how the lower on service industry schedules

their employees. The problem is that the social function of these jobs has fundamentally

changed. When I was working in the food service, there were very few people who were over the

age of 25 and even fewer who had children or families to support. I thought this was a really

interesting point. He writes, these jobs were never intended to support families. They were

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