Overview

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.

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9780195189728

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<br> An admirable and thoughtful book...Social Forces<br> A vital book that reminds us of the greatest blind spot in American politics. --Gregg Easterbrook, The New Republic<br> Rank's book is a must read for students and scholars studying the poverty problem. It is emotionally moving, intellectually stimulating and it inspires us to action. --International Journal of Social Welfare<br> Amid the commercial babble of most messages heard in a land of plenty, Rank's thesis definitely deserves a higher profile. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch<br>An analytical yet passionate critique of the harsh economic reality of poverty, which will affect most of us during our lives --Z<br> Rank stands out amid the rising chorus of authors who are decrying wage stagnation and widening income gap in that he tackles the very concept of poverty and its dimensions to demonstrate how and why its pervasiveness makes it a moral and political problem that affects everyone. --America, the National Catholic Weekly

<br> An admirable and thoughtful book...Social Forces<p><br> A vital book that reminds us of the greatest blind spot in American politics. --Gregg Easterbrook, The New Republic<p><br> Rank's book is a must read for students and scholars studying the poverty problem. It is emotionally moving, intellectually stimulating and it inspires us to action. --International Journal of Social Welfare<p><br> Amid the commercial babble of most messages heard in a land of plenty, Rank's thesis definitely deserves a higher profile. --St. Louis Post-Dispatch<p><br>An analytical yet passionate critique of the harsh economic reality of poverty, which will affect most of us during our lives --Z<p><br> Rank stands out amid the rising chorus of authors who are decrying wage stagnation and widening income gap in that he tackles the very concept of poverty and its dimensions to demonstrate how and why its pervasiveness makes it a moral and political problem that affects everyone. --America, theNational Cat

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

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