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What We Spend

America's Working Homeless

What We Spend

Audacy

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6689 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Last week, we spoke to Maxine—a long-haul trucker who works full-time, but still lost her home when she could no longer pay her rent. We wanted to know how that could happen. And it turns out, the problem is much bigger than we thought.

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0:00.0

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0:50.4

Last week on what we spend, we met Maxine.

0:53.3

She's a long-hot truck driver in North Carolina who was working all the time,

0:57.7

cutting corners where she could, and finding that the bills still just kept adding up.

1:02.8

If you haven't listened to that episode, pause now, go listen to it, and then come back.

1:07.7

If you did listen, then you know that while she was recording,

1:12.2

Maxine was forced to make the really hard decision to give up her apartment, because she just isn't making enough money

1:17.2

to pay her rent. We wanted to know more about how this could be happening, to Maxine and also

1:23.2

to other people around the country. How could someone be working full-time, providing an essential

1:28.3

service that the rest of us rely on, and still not make enough to meet her basic needs? And

1:34.3

how many other Maxines are out there? This week, instead of diving into another person's diaries,

1:40.3

we're going to try and get some answers to those questions. We've got a guest who's been looking into this exact subject for years,

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