One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All - Couverture souple

Rank, Mark Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195189728 ISBN 13 : 9780195189728

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Despite its enormous wealth, the United States leads the industrialized world in poverty. One Nation, Underprivileged unravels this disturbing paradox by offering a unique and radically different understanding of American poverty. It debunks many of our most common myths about the poor, while at the same time provides a powerful new framework for addressing this enormous social and economic problem.
Mark Robert Rank vividly shows that the fundamental causes of poverty are to be found in our economic structure and political policy failures, rather than individual shortcomings or attitudes. He establishes for the first time that a significant percentage of Americans will experience poverty during their adult lifetimes, and firmly demonstrates that poverty is an issue of vital national concern.
Ultimately, Rank provides us with a new paradigm for understanding poverty, and outlines an innovative set of strategies that will reduce American poverty. One Nation, Underprivileged represents a profound starting point for rekindling a national focus upon America's most vexing social and economic problem.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Robert Rank is the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195189728
• ISBN 13: 9780195189728
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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