A single mother with a disability applies for jobs that might lift her family from poverty, facing employers who see her gap-filled resume without seeing the caregiving that created gaps, who see her wheelchair without seeing her capabilities, who see her address in a neighborhood they associate with problems without seeing the lack of affordable housing elsewhere, each barrier reinforcing others until the combination becomes wall that any single barrier alone would not have built, her poverty making it harder to address her disability, her disability making it harder to escape poverty, her