Deborah Copaken interviews Alissa Quart, editor of GOING FOR BROKE

GOING FOR BROKE: Living on the Edge in the World's Richest Country is a book of essays commissioned by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, founded by Barbara Ehrenreich and Alissa Quart. In this video, Alissa discusses what it means to find oneself falling through the cracks and how creating art out of that hardship--or in this case writing and drawing--can be healing. To read more, click here: deborahcopaken...