Life inside the all-American dream - New Jersey's 'Tent City'
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The might difference, now, is that families are not crossing America in the hope of salvation. They are sitting securely, because there are no jobs fruit-picking in California, no gold sensation to lure them onto the road.
They know the rest of America is also agony.
The US Census Bureau last month revealed its 2010 findings, which showed that one in six Americans was now living in impecuniousness. Poverty is calculated across a range of thresholds, but a family of four earning $22,314 a year is considered to be in want.
The census showed that, for the fourth year running, the scarceness rate has steadily increased, and there were now 46.2 million people below the want line - the largest number since estimates were first published 52 years ago.
The census also found that natural median incomes had declined for white and black households, while Asian and Hispanic-origination households, while suffering high unemployment and low incomes, were holding incessant.
Brigham, a fit 51-year-old aligned to the local Lakewood Outreach Elders of the church Church, has left the known world behind to try to make a argument helping America's new homeless.
Source: The Daily Telegraph