A Young Scholar vs. the Recession

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This piece is an excerpt from Making Contact program #47-10 "How We Survive: The Recession Generation"

Intro and Outro

Thomas McCall grew up bouncing from house to house - from aunties and grandmas to friends’ couches, to the transitional housing residence for homeless youth in Richmond, CA, that he currently calls home. This 20-year-old student-athlete and father-to-be is part of a group of young people who have been hardest hit by this recession: the kids who were already struggling to make it in the American job market. Courtney Supple produced his story.

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