They serve the lunches in our schools. They are day laborers. They pick strawberries. They are orderlies in the hospitals. And yet when they get sick they cannot afford to lie in the beds they make up every day.
Unemployment is the lowest it has been in a generation.
But that fact does not ring true for millions of Americans who still cannot find work or keep jobs. It may be because the jobs are out in the suburbs and people have no way to get there. Or it may be because they cannot care for their children while they are at work. Whatever the reason they are left behind, people in under-served areas desperately want to work. A private prison is set to open in southeast Ohio, in Appalachia.