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So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
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Income disparities in our wealthy nation are now 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 those at the top.
In this accessible and inspiring analysis” (Angela Glover Blackwell), lifelong antipoverty 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. In a timely new introduction, Edelman discusses the significance of Obama’s reelectionincluding the rediscovery of the word poverty”as well as the continuing attack on the poor from the right.
Engaging and informative” (William Julius Wilson), powerful and eloquent” (Wade Henderson), a national treasure composed by a wise man” (George McGovern), and a great source for summaries of our country’s antipoverty program” (Publishers Weekly), So Rich, So Poor is crucial reading for anyone who wants to understand the most critical American dilemma of the twenty-first century.
In this accessible and inspiring analysis” (Angela Glover Blackwell), lifelong antipoverty 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. In a timely new introduction, Edelman discusses the significance of Obama’s reelectionincluding the rediscovery of the word poverty”as well as the continuing attack on the poor from the right.
Engaging and informative” (William Julius Wilson), powerful and eloquent” (Wade Henderson), a national treasure composed by a wise man” (George McGovern), and a great source for summaries of our country’s antipoverty program” (Publishers Weekly), So Rich, So Poor is crucial reading for anyone who wants to understand the most critical American dilemma of the twenty-first century.
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Peter Edelman
Peter Edelman is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center. Edelman was a top advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and served in President Bill Clinton’s administration. He is the author of So Rich, So Poor (The New Press) and lives in Washington, D.C.
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