How Much Time Tax Are You Paying?

Paperwork is never just paperwork when you’re already stretched thin. In The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time―and How to Fix It, Annie Lowrey shows how administrative burdens consume time, deepen inequality, and make everyday government feel like an obstacle course. In Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America, Jeff Hobbs follows a working mother and her children navigating homelessness in Los Angeles, revealing what survival looks like when every minute—and every safe place—matters. Together, these books ask who gets protected by our systems, who gets pushed t...