When historian Studs Terkel wanted to know how people really felt about their jobs, he traveled with a tape recorder and asked them.
recently took a similar tack, except she wanted to know how people felt about the lack of good jobs, about losing their homes and about struggling to escape poverty in the wake of the Great Recession.
A Northwestern Ph.D. candidate, Khoury looked to her home state of Ohio for insights we might apply more broadly. Khoury shares takeaways from her interviews with 50 Ohians, collected in her new book: As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation.
