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Mehran Mossaddad is a single dad who drives Uber for a living, but when the pandemic hit he stopped because he couldn t leave his daughter home alone. He fell behind on rent and is facing eviction. JUNE 8, 2021 Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR
Mehran Mossaddad has spent much of the pandemic scared and lying awake at night. He s a single dad with an 10-year-old daughter living outside Atlanta. I get panic attacks not knowing what s in store for us, he says. I have to take care of her.
Mossaddad drives Uber for a living, but when the pandemic hit he stopped because he couldn t leave his daughter home alone. As a result, he s fallen more than $15,000 behind on his rent, and his landlord has filed an eviction case against him.
Mehran Mossaddad has spent much of the pandemic scared and lying awake at night. He's a single dad with an 10-year-old daughter living outside Atlanta
Originally published on June 10, 2021 2:39 am
Mehran Mossaddad has spent much of the pandemic scared and lying awake at night. He s a single dad with an 10-year-old daughter living outside Atlanta. I get panic attacks not knowing what s in store for us, he says. I have to take care of her.
Mossaddad drives Uber for a living, but when the pandemic hit he stopped because he couldn t leave his daughter home alone. As a result, he s fallen more than $15,000 behind on his rent, and his landlord has filed an eviction case against him.
So back in March, when a federal moratorium on evictions got extended, and he heard Congress had approved nearly $50 billion for people to catch up on rent and avoid eviction, Mossaddad thought help was on the way.
Georgia pecans hold centuries of history. | Photo by Lynsey Weatherspoon for Thrillist
Georgia Pecans Represent How Far We Have To Go in Elevating Black Farmers
Farmers in the southern state weigh in on the challenges that come with growing one of its highest yielding crops.
Published on 6/1/2021 at 5:15 PM
Part of my childhood was spent growing up in a sunny, small town outside of Augusta, Georgia, where I recall running through piles of football-shaped pecans that fell from my granny’s trees in her front yard. I’d become fascinated with watching her bag them up and send them off with various relatives, neighbors, and family friends. But before they reached the hands of excited pecan lovers, I’d fixate my eyes on them falling from the trees as she gently shook the branches. It wasn’t exactly the snow I longed to witness in the South, but it was close enough.