The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

<div>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 poorâ€”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. </div>
Country USA
Manufacturer Bold Type Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-09-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Bold Type Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-09-10
Format	Kindle eBook

The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

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