Breadline USA: Truthdig Podcast

Sasha Abramsky explains how the dire conditions of the working poor are inextricably linked to lack of a "livable minimum wage" and no access to healthcare. Abramsky tells us as the working poor are going hungry, their health is declining-- in a vicious cycle as they desperately try to find dead end jobs. If the working poor are malnourished and focus only on finding enough food to put on the table, how can they have enough energy to work? Editorial comment by 26dems

Truthdig Report
May 29, 2009

Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book Breadline USA about the millions of Americans who work 40 hours a week and still go hungry, “these forgotten families who are doing everything they’ve been told they need to do to survive and ... they’re still being pushed backward by economic forces that they really don’t control.”

A woman scans the near-empty shelves of a Brooklyn food bank.






AP photo / Dima Gavrysh