(Middle East Eye) Nabilah Islam says her family’s one of the lucky ones.
As a teenager, her mother, a working-class immigrant from Noakhali, Bangladesh, literally broke her back while trying to hold down two jobs — flipping burgers at one and stacking boxes onto trucks at a busy warehouse in Atlanta, Georgia, at the other.
When her injuries meant she needed time off work, her insurance company tried to deny her benefits.
Islam says she was on every phone call with the insurance provider, translating and pushing for the company to cover her mother.
“The system tried to take advantage of my mum,” she told Middle East Eye.
