I’ll quote Ehrenreich one more time because this is important
I have a friend by the name of Greg Bloom at Bread for the City, who after seeing me blog mostly about the middle-class focused my attention back on poverty.
Barbara Ehrenreich does the same thing for society in her Op-Ed –
When I called food banks and homeless shelters around the country, most staff members and directors seemed poised to offer press-pleasing tales of formerly middle-class families brought low. But some, like Toni Muhammad at Gateway Homeless Services in St. Louis, admitted that mostly they see “the long-term poor,” who become even poorer when they lose the kind of low-wage jobs that had been so easy for me to find from 1998 to 2000. As Candy Hill, a vice president of Catholic Charities U.S.A., put it, “All the focus is on the middle class — on Wall Street and Main Street — but it’s the people on the back streets who are really suffering.”
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