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  2. Poverty, by America - Wikipedia

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    In a positive review for The Nation, Marcia Chatelain writes that the book makes a strong case why we should come together "to put an end to poverty in the United States once and for all," but this can only happen (according to Desmond's argument) when we reckon with the fact that too many high and middle income Americans "enjoy financial ...

  3. Losing Ground (book) - Wikipedia

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    Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 is a 1984 book about the effectiveness of welfare state policies in the United States between 1950 and 1980 by the political scientist Charles Murray. [2] Both its policy proposals and its methodology have attracted significant controversy. [3] [4] [5] [6]

  4. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System - Wikipedia

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    Fussell argues that social class in the United States is more complex in structure than simply three (upper, middle, and lower) classes.According to Bruce Weber, writing for the New York Times, Fussell divided American society into nine strata — from the idle rich, which he called "the top out-of-sight," to the institutionalized and imprisoned, which he labeled "the bottom out-of-sight."

  5. Poverty in the U.S. increased last year, even as incomes rose ...

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    The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

  6. The Truly Disadvantaged - Wikipedia

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    The book was first published in 1987; a second edition was published in 2012. [1] It examines the relationship between race and poverty in the United States, and the history of American inner-city ghettos. The broad-ranging book rejects both conservative and liberal arguments for the social conditions in American inner cities. [1]

  7. Map: These US states have the highest rates of long-term poverty

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    Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by the US Census Bureau. Persistent poverty can be defined as an area that has consistently ...

  8. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Wikipedia

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    Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States. [3] Evicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. The Pulitzer committee ...

  9. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The highest poverty rates in the United States are in the U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). [69] American Samoa has the lowest per capita income in the United States — it has a per capita income comparable to that of Botswana. [70]