Nomads

I see ads for recreational vehicles on TV. One model was being offered for $99 per month. Another listed features in a way that made me think it was being sold as permanent housing.

Jessica Bruder documents people who are "houseless" to avoid the expense of a mortgage or rent and who travel from job to job.

Linda wondered, not for the first time, how anybody could afford to grow old. Of the many jobs she’d held in her life, none had brought even a modicum of lasting financial stability.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve reports that 38 percent of wealth in the U.S. is owned by the top one percent while the bottom 90 percent own 22.8 percent.