Jeff Ferrell on Scrounging

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Jeff Ferrell quit his job as a tenured professor and moved back to Fort Worth for a year long experiment in living off the street. He chronicles his year as a dumpster diver in the book "Empire of the Scrounge." Ferrell talks with Steve Paulson about America's illicit economy of street scavenging and extreme re-cycling.