we had a sewing factory. the big factory? yeah. i worked there for almost ten years. were you making a good income there? i done decent there. i was actually the highest paid employee on the sewing floor. wow. but when that factory shuttered i did, too. now taking care of her 5-year-old son, hayden, means two minimum wage jobs working up to 60 hours a week and relying on $100 in food stamps each month. i don t understand why minimum wage here can t be raged. i don t get that. more than 43 million americans are living at orby low the poverty line. the economic decline didn t come quickly, it s been a slow, painful drip of job losses for decades. so what happened? our industry went away. we were slow to realize that. we were the number one oil producing candidate east of the mississippi at one time. yeah. plenty of money here at one