02995cam a2200421 4500 234438081 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 130923s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781568589558 electronic bk. 1568589557 electronic bk. 1d9793f3-bbb9-4f45-b6d4-e854b95e79a1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1272955 OverDrive (Product ID) (OCoLC)855502575 TLC TLC TxAuBib Abramsky, Sasha. The American way of poverty [Bridges eBook] : how the other half still lives / Sasha Abramsky. New York, NY : Nation Books, [2013] 1 online resource. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 780kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Electronic book. "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. 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 way 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"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. New York Nation Books 2013 Available via World Wide Web. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-03-03 20:00:02. Imported from MARC file. Poverty United States. Poor United States. Equality United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy. HISTORY / United States / 21st Century. United States Politics and government 2009- Electronic books. OverDrive, Inc. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=1D9793F3-BBB9-4F45-B6D4-E854B95E79A1 https://samples.overdrive.com/american-way-of-1d9793?.epub-sample.overdrive.com