Documenters from the Poor People's March met Tonya Williams as she waited in line to get a bed in a shelter in downtown Knoxville. She and her husband's economic human rights to housing and healthcare has been violated by a system that puts profits over people.

"We are from Dallas. I have just gotten laid off from Walmart. He just got laid off from a welding company. We were in between jobs and ran across this in the paper. They made it sound real good, promising him $17 an hour. We have to pay to get there and then they will reimburse us, pay for our hotel room and everything until he got our first check. Well they ended up closing down before we got there and they didn't let us know. So it took all our money to get there which left us homeless."

Tonya and her husband struggled to make ends meet, working odd jobs that didn't pay enough for a place to stay. She now stays at a church while her husband stays across the street at the Salvation Army--there is no place where men and women can stay together.

"We worked odd end jobs. We survived and then we came down here. My first unemployment check we bought two tickets. It cost $69 a piece. Seven day wait and they brought us all the way here."

Tonya has been homeless for more than four months now. Her situation is repeated over and over again every day in America.