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Nicole Adkins Executive Director & Founder God’s Grace Mobile Food Pantry Dayton In our area, a lot of the jobs that were co ...

UNITED STATES OF DIVISIONS: A GLOSSARY 60 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 KNOCK THE HUSTLE Larrilou Carumba walks the picket line in fr ...

Janelle Christensen Executive Director The Family Support & Treatment Center Orem, Utah There is stigma around assis- tance ...

BeauG. Heyen President and CEO NourishKC Kansas City, Mo. We put the poor in a box, we put the rich in a box, and then we want a ...

Work/life balance? Not a chance Caregiver Mary Lou Angel’s top customer is her 92-year-old mother, Lois. I HADmy own business: M ...

BOTTOM 50% MIDDLE 40% (MIDDLE CLASS) NEXT 9% TOP 1% DISTRIBUTION OF U.S. NATIONAL INCOME(PRETAX) 20% 44% 13% 40% 24% 27% 13% 20% ...

GROWTH IN PRICES, 1990–2018 (CURRENT $, U.S. CITIES ) FOOD AND BEVERAGE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME GASOLINE (PREMIUM UNLEADED) RENT ...

66 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 Ourneighborhoodsarefailingus.Dying business corridors hurt the middle class. many residents, its emp ...

Chicago that hasn’t been acquired and reopened by another grocery chain. Not coincidentally, South Shore residents travel an ave ...

68 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 48% struggled with poverty. It also found that gig workers reported higher rates of abusive labor pr ...

69 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 Luxuries?Theyaren’ton themenuMemphis cook Bobby Hagebusch, 43, rises at 5 a.m. for work—and eats alo ...

70 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 I STARTED IN RESIDENTIAL TRASHin 1998, riding on the back of garbage trucks in eastern Michigan when ...

71 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 ...and debt burdens BY DAN REILLY THE STUDENT DEBT cri- sis may soon force an- other generation to s ...

3 72 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 nia, a team from UCLA studied the restaurant industry and found that when the minimum wage was gra ...

TimScott Republican Senator, South Carolina Growing up, my single mother— my rock and big- gest supporter— worked 16-hour days a ...

SECTION 3: HOW WE CAN FIX IT SPECIAL REPORT 74 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 freshwater supply from Lake Michigan, which the city cur ...

75 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 HAZARD PAY Residents of this Kentucky town seek a post-coal revival. Among them are former miner tur ...

ChuckRobbins CEO, Cisco Those who are completely des- titute and those who work full- time still need the same thing: housing th ...

77 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 the power imbalance between workers and employers. First, Congress should pass the Raise the Wage bi ...

SECTION 3: HOW WE CAN FIX IT SPECIAL REPORT 78 FORTUNE.COM// JA N.1 .19 a degree or retrain every time a job is outsourced or el ...