Idaho stands in the Breadline USA

Sasha has been to Idaho twice and has spent time with members of the Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force, Idaho Foodbank staff, and recipients of emergency food. In his summer 2008 visit, he spent a day with Royce Wright, Oasis Food and Worship Center (Caldwell) and met with children and families receiving meals through the USDA Child Nutrition Summer Meals program that Royce and his wife Carol sponsor in 50 sites across three Idaho counties. This Idaho experience is one that informed his book.

About Breadline USA:

Trapped in the triangle of the housing market collapse, rising energy costs, and an increasingly dysfunctional health care system, America’s working poor are now battling an even more formidable enemy: hunger. Breadline USA tells the stories of Americans in all types of communities who struggle to put food on the table come the end of the month when money runs out and the social safety net isn’t there to catch them.

Sasha Talks About His Book

About the Author

Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and Senior Fellow at the New York City-based think tank, Demos: Ideas & Action. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. Originally from England and a graduate of Oxford University, he has since adopted his mother’s homeland of America and now lives in Sacramento, California. He has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. In 2000, he was awarded a Soros Society, Crime, and Communities Media Fellowship. His third book, American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment, was published by Beacon Press in 2007. His first book, Hard Time Blues, was published in 2002; his second book, Conned, was published in 2006.

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