Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
Sunday, June 18, 2017
Rigged
As I left the supermarket, this USA Today print cover story caught my eye, "Rigged: Forced into debt. Worked to exhaustion. Left with nothing." I took another look at an online version of the story and read that many truckers are being classified as independent contractors and working long hours only to owe the shipping companies money or receive a 67-cent check at the end of the week. For too many, the American nightmare continued through the Obama years, and goodness knows what awaits them under the current regime.
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