Why no one cares about this election, reason #4670132

The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class

Prior to the Great Recession, Adkins owned and ran a successful plant nursery in Moab, Utah. At its peak, it was grossing $300,000 a year. She had never before been unemployed – she'd worked for 40 years, through three major recessions. During her first year of unemployment, in 2010, she wrote three or four cover letters a day, five days a week. Now, to keep her mind occupied when she's not looking for work or doing odd jobs, she volunteers at an animal shelter called the Santa Barbara­ Wildlife Care Network. ("I always ask for the most physically hard jobs just to get out my frustration," she says.) She has permission to pick fruit directly from the branches of the shelter's orange and avocado trees. Another benefit is that when she scrambles eggs to hand-feed wounded seabirds, she can surreptitiously make a dish for herself.

Not only are NO politicians proposing any policies that would actually help people in her situation, localities are criminalizing poverty.

There is a huge humanitarian crisis unfolding in our country and our political, financial, media, and think tank elite are united in their determination to ignore it.