In Someplace Like America the guys went around the world living with, interacting with all different types of americans to see what problems they have had to faced throughout the years. Their story began around the 1980's when the research started. The authors Dale Maharidge and Michael S. Williamson joined teams and wanted america to know the real stories about the way the average person lived in america. They wanted to show the people what the mainstream media had been ignoring for so long. They showed us that these people were losing not only their jobs but their lives as a result of deindustrialization.
They talk about certain people they really felt for in their journey. They listened to americans lives and documented it, this book is over about 30 years of their research, even involving times now. They talk about how the government had not only started shutting down factories but blowing them up and leaving hundreds of people unemployed. People had no other means of a way of living and they started losing their homes and basically their lives. So they resorted to living the "homeless" lifestyle living in tents, under buildings and bridges.
While reading this it actually helped me realized how easy we have it today in someways, and just how lucky you are if you have an average family that can afford a nice home, shelton, food, clothing.. ect. When a lot of the people out there can't afford the simple every day needs today. You never realize how much the media does cover up to make it look like we are such a "happy living place." When in fact people are out there hurting, needing jobs, needing shelter and having no way of getting or receiving them.
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