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Title: The New (Older) American Nomads

*Author: *Jessica Bruder Source: Leonard Lopate (WNYC) Date: Sept 26, 2017 Summary: Award-winning journalist Jessica Bruder http://www.wnyc.org/people/jessica-bruder/ discusses her book, *Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039324931X/wnycorg-20/**.* Bruder reports on a new class of American nomadic workers. She travels with groups of older Americans who, following the Great Recession, found that their social security wasn’t enough to cover their living expenses and mortgages. They live on the road in RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.”

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