This book... was not an easy read. It can be often a bit depressing or unsettling, if only for the stories of real people that it presents to the reader. With that in mind, it tries to take a good, solid, objective look at the issue of poverty in the U.S. and how this group of people survive from...
Our sailboat is anchored near the shore of a Maine island, in a quiet cove disconnected from the technological world. Our cell phones pick up no signal here, so their location cannot be traced. I can write on this computer, but the Internet is inaccessible, so I can’t be monitored sending e-mails...
The clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank has $2.02 in her own account. The woman who copyedits medical textbooks has not been to a dentist in a decade. This is the forgotten America. At the bottom of its working world, millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight between pov...