Writer DW Gibson traveled across the country in search of the Great Recession’s victims. The result: Not Working, a portrait of America’s 21st-century unemployed. Here are a few of the tales he came home with.
Over the summer and fall of 2011, I drove across the country from southern California to New York City. I made the trip with filmmaker MJ Sieber, playwright Mallery Avidon, and — when she could escape her job — my wife, Tasha Garcia Gibson.
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There were more than 49 million Americans living in poverty in 2010, under an alternative measure released by the Census Bureau Monday.
That’s 16% of the nation, higher than the official poverty rate of 15.2%. The official rate, released in September, showed 46.6 million people living in poverty.
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