![]() ![]() And for so many people, that takes such a gigantic chunk out of incomes that are in many cases stagnant. Once you leave a house behind, you know, you no longer have utilities. And it's an expense that keeps going up even as wages stay flat. SHAPIRO: I asked Jessica Bruder why these people decided to pull up roots and take to the road.īRUDER: For most of us, housing is the biggest expense we have. Getting together in groups and staying in touch on the Internet and basically forming a sort of mobile middle class. Going off the grid, boondocking, using solar power. ![]() Camping wherever they can, often on public land. JESSICA BRUDER: From harvesting sugar beets to working in Amazon warehouses to selling Christmas trees and pumpkins and roadside stands. Now they do physical work for long hours, often earning just enough money to go the next mile. Maybe they lost their savings in the Great Recession or they never had any to begin with. ![]() The author Jessica Bruder told me that many of the people she met are past what we think of as retirement age. Our co-host, Ari Shapiro, spoke with her about her new book, "Nomadland: Surviving America In The Twenty-First Century."ĪRI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Nobody knows exactly how many people in the U.S. ![]() The journalist Jessica Bruder embedded with this community, traveling all over the U.S. And they follow the work, moving from job to job. They live in vehicles - RVs, campers, vans. Thousands of people in the United States are not exactly homeless more like houseless. ![]()
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