From middle class to working homeless at age 24

A few months after losing her administrative job in the summer of 2008, 23-year-old Brianna Karp got rid of her furniture, a beloved piano, and most of her books so she could move back in with her parents. When that didn't work out, she moved into an old trailer a relative had left her, settling into an informal homeless community in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Brea, Calif. By the summer of 2009, she was living without electricity, regular showers, home-cooked food, and most basic conveniences.

You're working now, right?

Yeah, I'm a marketing assistant at a local theater group, a nonprofit. Since it's a nonprofit, the wages aren't the highest, but I love my job and the people I work with.

So why don't you move into an apartment or a more stable home?

The job doesn't pay me enough to. The commute is pretty far, rents are going up, it's that kind of vicious circle. I'm just plugging away, trying different approaches.

Do you still consider yourself homeless?

I consider myself in a limbo state. The government would consider me homeless, because I don't have a fixed residence that's fit for human habitation.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112801/fight-to-rejoin-middle-class-usnews

This is a national emergency - if the feds can find a way to bail out the assholes that create these financial crises over and over - why is the middle class expected to suffer for those fools?

There are far bigger fish to fry and far larger unlimited donations to collect.

The middle class? :rofl: Fuck you.

I dunno, she has a roof over her head, it's kinda a home.

They are basically a solar heated oven in the daytime, about as hot as in a car in the same situation.

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