The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
By Sasha Abramsky.
Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFifty 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 Abra...
ISBN(s)
1568584601, 9781568584607
