UWP Faculty Sasha Abramsky's Newest Publication: Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It
University Writing Program faculty member, Sasha Abramsky publishes
an important account of what it's like to eat on very little in the
United States. Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger
and How to Fix It (2009)
http://www.amazon.com/Breadline-USA-Hidden-Scandal-American/dp/0981709117
gives readers up-close insights into hunger in America. As
an investigative journalist, Abramsky put himself in the shoes of the
people he writes about. For example, for
two months he lived on the equivalent income of a median-income
McDonald's worker ($8.23
per hour in 2008). Abramsky depicts the food choices and compromises
made by people in such financial situations, concluding that hunger in
America has less to do with
lack of food than with broader economic challenges we face -- a minimum
wage
that hasn't kept pace with inflation, huge problems within the private
pension system, the lack of universal health insurance, spiking gas
prices
and so on. Furthermore, in his book, Abramsky detail a series of policy
recommendations that
address these big-picture economic problems.
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