Boo! Halloween Crosses Class Lines.

What were all those kids from … other neighborhoods doing, trick-or-treating at your house last night?

“Imagine living in a neighborhood where it’s too dangerous to knock on a door at night, or next to neighbors who are too poor to buy a bag of candy.”

— “Halloween carpetbaggers expose the fault lines between the haves and have-nots,” Petula Dvorak, Washington Post

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Photo of an Anacostia bus bound for Capitol Hill on Halloween 2013, by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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