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Amy Goldstein (journalist)

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Deindustrialization As the fifth year without the General Motors plant arrives, the ways that time and economic misfortune can rend even a resilient community —a community determined  not to lie down and give up— are now plain to see. The city on the Rock River is now two Janesvilles. Amy Goldstein, Janesville  © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
Deindustrialization The staffers [at Community Action, an anti- poverty program] are now seeing new poor who, unlike the old poor, don't want to hear about FoodShare, as food stamps are called in Wisconsin, or Badgercare, as Medicaid is called, or any other kind of government help for people low on money. These new poor are stressed to the max, having topped out their credit cards and raided their 401(k)'s and sometimes moved out of where they were living and moved in with relatives. In their stress, there is one very specific kind of help that these new poor want, and that is leading them to swallow their pride and call Community Action. Almost all of them want advice on how to find a J-O-B. Amy Goldstein, Janesville,  where 1.200 lost good-paying jobs when a GM plant closed © 2018 Kwiple.com