voices of the unemployed

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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