Plight of the underclass with Linh Dinh
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges is joined by Linh Dinh, author of Postcards from the End of America. Dinh traveled across the US to give voice to those who have been disappeared by our corporate state. RT correspondent Anya Parampil sheds light on the stark statistics on Americans living in poverty.
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