02522cam a2200313 4500 522968021 TxAuBib 20210905120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781568589558 1568589557 1d9793f3-bbb9-4f45-b6d4-e854b95e79a1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1272955 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Abramsky, Sasha. The American Way of Poverty [Libby] : How the Other Half Still Lives. Nation Books, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 780kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Politics. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>Selected as A Notable Book of the Year by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br /> Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book <i>The Other America</i>, 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.<br /> <i>The American Way of Poverty</i> 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.<br /> 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, <i>The American Way of Poverty</i> brings that same powerful indignation to the topic.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:20:50. https://samples.overdrive.com/american-way-of-1d9793?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/american-way-of-1d9793?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) BMLLS