Essay: The Least of These My Brethren – Lens

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Essay: The Least of These My Brethren

A recent assignment photographing food stamp recipients rekindled vivid memories for Stephen Crowley of a journey among the jobless in 1983.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/behind-27/

In the winter of 1983, I interviewed and photographed dozens of Americans who had migrated to Florida from the Northeast and Midwest. They left because national unemployment was hovering around 10 percent, while in Florida it was 7.8 percent — and much warmer.

I have never forgotten them.