Table of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- Prologue -- chapter 1 Driving to Hunger -- Interlude I -- chapter 2 When the Month Is Longer Than the Money -- Interlude II -- chapter 3 Trickle-up Poverty -- Interlude -- III chapter 4 Big-Box Special -- Interlude IV -- chapter 5 Elderly, Angry, and Looking for Work -- Interlude V -- chapter 6 Grapes of Wrath Regurgitated Conclusion: After the Fall -- Index

About the Author

Sasha Abramsky is an award-winning magazine writer and book author .His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Mother Jones, the Nation, the London Guardian and many other publications. He is a senior fellow at Demos and teaches in the writing program at the University of California at Davis. Abramsky lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and two children.

Reviews

We have come a long way since the Dustbowl era, when hunger was a pressing national concern. Or have we? Abramsky challenges our conventional wisdom with an impassioned plea to take hunger and food production seriously again. In his book, hunger becomes a way to gauge where we are as a civilized nation. Breadline USA is an eye-opening account and, more important, a call to action. -Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day Abramsky writes in the best tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich, Studs Terkel, and John Steinbeck. The fruit of his patient and compassionate research, Breadline USA, is required reading for all of us concerned to banish, forever, the long hidden legacy of hunger in America. -Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved