How Companies Like Amazon Exploit Itinerant Elderly Workers (Video)
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discusses "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" with author Jessica Bruder in an eye-opening conversation about America's mobile elderly workforce.
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discusses “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” with author Jessica Bruder in an eye-opening conversation about elderly workers in America who are forced to live in mobile homes while taking unstable, grueling temporary work.
“It’s pretty ugly out there, and for a lot of people who’d thought they’d figured it out for retirement and put something away, or for their counterparts who never were able to put anything away because wages were so low, there’s this perfect storm that happened after the recession,” Bruder says.
— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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