My father-in-law grew up eating blood soup. He hated it, whether because of the taste or the humiliation, I never knew. His alcoholic father regularly drank up the family wage, and the family was often short on food money. They were evicted from apartment after apartment.
https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class
analepsis 
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/14/panic-in-america-people-in-revolt/
The mystical “hand” has been slapping around American workers by moving industry to places where labor is cheaper and unions weak. In turn, the exploited foreign workers have sought relief from desperate wage conditions in their countries by immigrating to the US, embittering the native workforce.