What’s Life For The Average, Poor American?

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published December 9, 2014 at 1:00 PM EST

12/09/14 - What’s life for the average, poor American?

Many have experienced it. One third of Americans barely scrape by each month. A serious crisis can lead to homelessness. Don’t miss Tuesday’s Topical Currents. We’ll speak not with a professor, sociologist or journalist . . . but with Linda Tirado, who’s trapped in the grim world of the working poor. Her blog caught fire. Now, she’s written HAND TO MOUTH: Living in Bootstrap America. That’s Topical Currents Tuesday at 1pm.

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Joseph Cooper

WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives

Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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