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To understand class, check out a grocery store
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- Think from KERA
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- Jul 7, 2026
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- 2786
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Summary
Grocery stores serve as hubs for many communities, and you can learn a lot about how our society functions (or doesn’t) by looking closely at one. Ann Larson is a fellow with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and she joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss the lives of grocery store workers, who are deemed essential but earn wages that don’t cover basic life necessities. Her book is “ Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices