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    A Full-Time Job Won’t Save You From Homelessness in the US

    By , Rania Khalek , Eugene Puryear Z VideoNo Comments1 Min Read
    Source: Breakthrough News

    Brian Goldstone, author of “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” joins the show to discuss the alarming new epidemic of full-time workers falling into homelessness. Goldstone argues that skyrocketing rents, low wages, and weak tenant protections are making the “working homeless” the new face of the nation’s housing crisis.

    This article was originally published by Breakthrough News; please consider supporting the original publication, and read the original version at the link above.

    Brian Goldstone is a journalist and author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. His longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, Guernica, and Jacobin, among other publications. In 2017-2018, he was a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Journalism, Religion & International Affairs; prior to this, he was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Columbia University.

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    Rania Khalek is an independent journalist reporting on the underclass and marginalized. For more of her work check out her website Dispatches from the Underclass and follow her on Twitter @RaniaKhalek.

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