Photo: #Omega Mckenzie searches the employment ads in a newspaper in Brooklyn.

One catastrophe away from poverty

Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/03/2007, 10:06 a.m.

A health crisis, divorce or job loss -- just one of these circumstances is enough to send an increasing number of Americans into poverty. An author who has studied the working poor explores the barriers to getting ahead.

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