Someplace Like AmericaTales from the New Great Depression

Abstract

This book take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media—people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, the authors have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class. This book follows the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This study—begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe—puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.

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