Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Assistant Editor and Poetry Editor
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. She also holds a Creative Writing M.F.A. from Boston University and both a…
In a special edition of "On Contact," the Truthdig columnist visits Anderson, Ind., to witness the economic and psychological impact the flight of General Motors jobs overseas has had on the workers.
The city has changed dramatically since the 1970s when, at the peak of American automobile manufacturing, a third of Anderson's 70,000 residents worked at General Motors. Over the past thirty years, Anderson's population has decreased as thousands upon thousands of well-paid union jobs were lost.
Watch the video above where Hedges interviews people in what used to be "big car country" and documents what's become of Anderson now.
— Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
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