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Poverty, the Housing Crisis and Lobster on Food Stamps w/ Matthew Desmond

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Effect of Stress on Your Body

About a third of the American workforce works for $15 an hour or less today. "I have experienced stress to the extent that it's made me physically unwell because of the amount of work I've put on myself," she says. The idea of working way out of poverty, really just being able to put in the hours to get ahead, is very different from putting in double what most Americans are doing.

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