Right after college, Adam Shepard boarded a train with only $25. In his book Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, he writes about spending a year as a day laborer and ...

2008-12-25T18:04:26-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/867/282701-m.jpgAdam Shepard talked about his book Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the ...

“Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream,” by Adam Shepard. SB Press. 235 pp. $13.95. Is the American Dream still alive? Can one man pull himself out of poverty through hard ...

In the middle of Adam Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings, we learn that he’s frustrated with not being able to find a job that pays more than $6.50 an hour, that down-and-out men living at Crisis Ministries ...

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A young man fresh out of college might look forward to a summer traveling abroad or working at some prestigious internship, but after graduating two years ago, Adam Shepard decided to join the ranks ...