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Green Chair executive director Jackie Craig and Antoinette Hoskins
Rebuilding lives; tapping design donors by SETTLE MONROE
In the fall of 2014, life was going well for Antoinette Hoskins, a working mother of three. She was living in a lovely townhome with her children, had health insurance, an established 401(k), and a shiny new car. Hoskins was even about to purchase her first home. She never could have imagined that six short months later, she would find herself suddenly unemployed, sleeping on the floor of a friend’s apartment, separated from her children, and staring at a rapidly depleting savings account. Her two teenage daughters and 7-year-old son went to live with out-of-town family for the summer
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photographs by TRAVIS LONG