For a good look at what modern poverty in America looks like, see Stephanie Land's amazing book Maid. The overall picture is of someone doing extremely demeanin

For a good look at what modern poverty in America looks like, see Stephanie Land's amazing book Maid. The overall picture is of someone doing extremely demeaning, physically demanding manual labour, and spending months at a time barely able to afford food for herself and her daughter, in that precarious position where even a trivial unexpected expense could easily send her back to homelessness.