They, Too, Sing America

Charles Blow writes about the real America - the "honest people who do honest work — crack-the-bones work; lift-it, chop-it, empty-it, glide-it-in-smooth work; feel-the-flames-up-close work; crawl-down-in-there work... They do hard jobs and odd jobs — any work they can find to keep the lights on and the children fed."
 
Working people just trying to survive in a Gilded Era of the wealthy getting wealthier while the crumbs going to the bottom are fewer and fewer.