The modern world has not been kind to the tribes scraping a living from the barren fringes of the desert.

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Besides those job-image surveys showing car salesmen scraping the bottom with journalists and lawyers, selling cars is not easy money.

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During our poverty tour last year, we met countless people caught in vicious cycles of looking for nonexistent jobs because their unemployment benefits were expiring or had run out, scraping change together for gas to go on interviews that may or may not pan out, and having to swap food stamps for cash to keep the lights or gas on in the house.

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