Screen LibraryThe American way of poverty : how the other half still lives /
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...
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Nation Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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. This book shines a light on this travesty. The author brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows an |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 355 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781568587264 (hardback) : 1568587260 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HC110 |
| CLC: | F171.26 |
| Call Number: | F171.26/A161 |
| Contents: | Prologue : A scandal in the making -- pt. 1. The voices of poverty -- Poverty in the land of the plutocrats -- Blame games -- An American dilemma -- The fragile safety net -- The wrong side of the tracks -- Stuck in reverse -- pt. 2. Building a new and better house -- Why now? -- Shoring up the safety net -- Breaking the cycle of poverty -- Boosting economic security for the working poor -- Coda : Attention must be paid. |