“After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.” – Brian Goldstone

Journalist and Author Brian Goldstone was on pbsnews.org discussing his book, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, about the staggering rise of the “working homeless.”

“Homelessness today isn’t just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It’s often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside.”

It’s in cities across America today, in one city after another, a low wage job really is homelessness waiting to happen. And what they have in common is they all belong to the low wage workforce. And it’s not just that their wages are too low to keep up with the skyrocketing cost of having a place to live.

It’s also that the jobs themselves have become increasingly volatile and precarious where they often don’t know how many hours they’re going to be getting from one week to the next. Their employers give them 29 hours a week because at 30 they would be eligible for basic benefits like health insurance or sick leave…”

Read the full transcript here 

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