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Sat 03 Mar 2009Living the American nightmare in a tented city
When the tattered camp showed up on Oprah and al-Jazeera, city officials noticed, writes MARIA LA GANGA
THE TENT city in California’s capital, sprawling messily on a grassed-over landfill, is home to some 200 men and women with nowhere else to go. It has been here for more than a year, but in the last three weeks it has been transformed into a vivid symbol of a financial crisis otherwise invisible to many Americans.
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