Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It

ISBN-13: 9780981709116 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 209 str.

Sasha Abramsky

Opis

Trapped in a triangle of the housing market collapse, rising energy costs, and an increasingly dysfunctional healthcare system, America's working poor are now battling an even more formidable enemy: hunger. This time, the battle is taking place well outside of the media spotlight, which has focused on obesity, another food-related epidemic affecting the poor. Breadline USA tells the stories of Americans in all types of communities who struggle to put any type of food on the table come the end of the month when money runs out and the social safety net isnt there to catch them.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- Prologue -- chapter 1 Driving to Hunger -- Interlude I -- chapter 2 When the Month Is Longer Than the Money -- Interlude II -- chapter 3 Trickle-up Poverty -- Interlude -- III chapter 4 Big-Box Special -- Interlude IV -- chapter 5 Elderly, Angry, and Looking for Work -- Interlude V -- chapter 6 Grapes of Wrath Regurgitated Conclusion: After the Fall -- Index

O autorze

Sasha Abramsky is an award-winning magazine writer and book author .His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, the Nation, the London Guardian and many other publications. He is a senior fellow at Demos and teaches in the writing program at the University of California at Davis. Abramsky lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and two children.