2012-01-09cnn.com

The Bryants used to make $40,000, lived in their own home and gave to others. Now they live below the poverty line in the city with the widest income gap between rich and poor than anywhere else in the nation.

They're among the millions of Americans who fell out of the middle class.

Tonight, when Andono and Alan sit down to dinner, it'll be because she made a meal from co-op groceries... "If it were not for the co-op," she says, "a lot of us would not be able to survive. This is the bridge that helps get us over."



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