Interesting article but not news to me. I have been to peoples homes that were only tin sheds with a dirt floor and an extention cord going to it from a nearby trailer to provide electricity for a lamp and a space heater. Hell, I even once lived in a broke down dodge camper that sat in a junk yard covered in plastic wrap and heated by space heater (but it did have a telephone and satelite tv for a while) ...couple of years later i had a 3 story townhouse in Muskegon, but now once again I'm back to having almost nothing. The lower class is the biggest growing sector of america it seems... mainly because once you get there its impossible to get back out of it.