Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130210:17:59:00
Overall troubles with the american economy? is this just one symptom of it? >> we've been making this documentary for about 2 1/2 years, and i would say from the day we started until now, there's probably twice as many canners out on the street in new york. it's something that all the people collecting cans talk about. every day there's more and more people who don't have any opportunity. it's a real problem. it's a problem here in new york. we were out in your hometown in l.a., a couple of weeks ago. come out of a nice beautiful academy screening, and a man walking down the street with a big ...