Steve at YDD links to one in a series of articles by Barbara Ehrenreich in which she documents the many ways in which municipalities have made it illegal to be poor in America. There are links as well there to the two previous articles in the series. This is not pleasing or rewarding reading but something everyone should read.
As I commented over at Steve's place. There is only so much pain and suffering such a large group of people will take lying down. The ever increasing potential for violent demands for change will break sooner or later and it will be very ugly. The main stream media, when it deals with the trials of the current depression, are focusing on the 'middle class' or what Barbara calls the 'Nouveau Poor' but as she so aptly describes there existed a whole class of already poor when this depression arrived and they are being pushed further and further down the slope. It's absurd that this should be the case in a country with all the wealth of this one that people, through no fault of their own, should be forced to live in such misery.
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