The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
ISBN-13:
9781568587264
ISBN-10:
1568587260
Edition:
1
Author:
Sasha Abramsky
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Nation Books
Format:
Hardcover
368 pages
Category:
Economic Policy & Development
,
Economics
,
United States History
,
Poverty
,
Social Sciences
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ISBN-13:
9781568587264
ISBN-10:
1568587260
Edition:
1
Author:
Sasha Abramsky
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
Nation Books
Format:
Hardcover
368 pages
Category:
Economic Policy & Development
,
Economics
,
United States History
,
Poverty
,
Social Sciences
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (ISBN-13: 9781568587264 and ISBN-10: 1568587260), written by authors
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Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review
Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor—the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity has become the new norm.
The American Way of Poverty shines a light on this travesty. Sasha Abramsky brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows and, ultimately, suggests ways for moving toward a fairer and more equitable social contract. Exploring everything from housing policy to wage protections and affordable higher education, Abramsky lays out a panoramic blueprint for a reinvigorated political process that, in turn, will pave the way for a renewed War on Poverty.
It is, Harrington believed, a moral outrage that in a country as wealthy as America, so many people could be so poor. Written in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, in an era of grotesque economic extremes, The American Way of Poverty brings that same powerful indignation to the topic.
Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor—the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity has become the new norm.
The American Way of Poverty shines a light on this travesty. Sasha Abramsky brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows and, ultimately, suggests ways for moving toward a fairer and more equitable social contract. Exploring everything from housing policy to wage protections and affordable higher education, Abramsky lays out a panoramic blueprint for a reinvigorated political process that, in turn, will pave the way for a renewed War on Poverty.
It is, Harrington believed, a moral outrage that in a country as wealthy as America, so many people could be so poor. Written in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, in an era of grotesque economic extremes, The American Way of Poverty brings that same powerful indignation to the topic.
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