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America, by Way of the Antelope Valley

Apr 22, 2011
Such areas contain the dispirited middle that Obama will have to win over to be re-elected, people whose struggles with daily life are so consuming that the national political debate over the budget and the deficit seems far away and irrelevant.Rather than a view of a candidate, the valley offers a view of the nation.
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Waking Up in the 1930s

Sep 3, 2010
In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line, and the neatly dressed, solidly middle class, once working folk who queue up are just becoming reconciled to a stark new reality.In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line, and the neatly dressed, solidly middle class folk who queue up are just becoming reconciled to a stark new reality.

Breadline USA

May 29, 2009
Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book 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".