Out of Work in the US The Real News Network go to original April 10, 2010
AlJazeera: Tens of millions of Americans unemployed are a 'social state of emergency'
With tens of millions of Americans unemployed, and millions more struggling to survive on a minimum wage, the rapid spread of poverty and insufficient access to welfare have combined to form what some analysts are calling a 'social state of emergency' in the United States. Are there solutions?
Fault Lines travels to some of the regions hardest hit by the recession, tracking some creative measures taken by local communities to combat the jobs crisis from the bottom up.