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🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | Nobody else could fill my spot is, I mean that's huge to me and that's what belonging is. |
0:08.0 | I feel irreplaceable now was before I never felt that. |
0:20.0 | This is death, sex and money. The show from WNY about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
0:29.0 | I'm Anna Seale. |
0:40.0 | Near the center of town and Casper Wyoming, there's a small office building with a parking lot. |
0:42.8 | On one side is the office for WIC, women, infant, and children, |
0:47.1 | the federal program that provides low-income pregnant women, new moms, |
0:50.5 | and kids under the age of five with nutrition education and food |
0:54.0 | assistance. On the other side of the building across the lobby is the office for |
0:59.1 | Climb Wyoming. That's a job training program for single moms experiencing poverty. And that's where I met |
1:06.2 | Hannah, who's worked for a construction company as a truck driver for three years. |
1:11.3 | Right now we're working on the interstate right through town. |
1:15.0 | The interstate, so that's the I-25 construction work? |
1:17.7 | Yes. |
1:18.7 | Okay, I admired your company's work this morning when I get down. |
1:22.1 | Yeah. I was like, oh, not many lanes are open right now. |
1:25.0 | We're everybody's favorite right now. |
1:27.0 | Hannah is 34 and lives in Casper, where she was born and raised. |
1:32.0 | She drives a dump truck that can haul 13 tons. |
1:36.1 | The truck weighs about 50,000 pounds. The tires are enormous. |
1:41.2 | Well let's see, I'm about 5.4. They go to my hips. Okay. So. And what's it like working on |
1:48.2 | construction sites? Like, I mean, when you drive around town like do you see the places where you've worked? Yeah, I get really excited like when I'm driving with my kids I'll tell them hey, I paved that and they don't care nearly as much as I care. |
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