Life is harder for unskilled refugees who are resettled by do-gooders with no sense about the cost of living. One telling example is the struggle of Afghan families who have been placed in California’s ultra expensive Bay Area. That situation was reflected in a front-page sob story in the San Jose Mercury News on Monday:

The subject family is not surviving financially. Khisrow Jan, the father and breadwinner, is working 12 hours a day as an Uber driver which doesn’t pay the rent of $1850 for a two-bedroom apartment in Antioch. He has a stay-at-home wife and four kids to support, so the expenses won’t be decreasing any time soon. The agency that placed the family in one of America’s most expensive areas did them no favors.

But the story does provide the dose of emotional diversity that many media outlets crave. It is a reprint from CalMatters.org, a liberal news site.