{"product_id":"the-american-way-of-poverty-how-the-other-half-still-lives-9781568584607","title":"The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as A Notable Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eThe Other America\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e brings that same powerful indignation to the topic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bold Type Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781568584607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/14\/2014 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sasha Abramsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42917268160693,"sku":"9781568584607","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_524d1ab0-c889-4ea2-9d4d-e2de56f391e2.jpg?v=1687281100","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-american-way-of-poverty-how-the-other-half-still-lives-9781568584607","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}