So Rich, So Poor : Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
(2013)
By:
Edelman, Peter
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The New Press, 2013
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781595589576 MWT12430029, 1595589570 12430029
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Income disparities in our wealthy nation are wider than at any point since the Great Depression. The structure of today's economy has stultified wage growth for half of America's workers-with even worse results at the bottom and for people of color-while bestowing billions on the few at the very top. Lifelong anti-poverty advocate Peter Edelman assesses how the United States can have such an outsized number of unemployed and working poor despite important policy gains. He delves into what is happening to the people behind the statistics and takes a particular look at young people of color, for whom the possibility of productive lives is too often lost on the way to adulthood
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