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  2. Poverty, by America - Wikipedia

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    Poverty, by America received critical acclaim upon release. [4] Kirkus Reviews wrote positively about Desmond's policy proposals, describing the book as a "clearly delineated guide to finally eradicate poverty in America." [3] Booklist and BookPage similarly praised the book, singling out Desmond's solutions as a highlight.

  3. Matthew Desmond's 'Evicted' changed the conversation about housing insecurity. He explains why his new book, 'Poverty, by America,' is even more ambitious.

  4. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mink, Gwendolyn, and Alice O'Connor, eds. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (ABC-CLIO 2004). Patterson, James T. (2000) America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 2000) online. Prasad, Monica (2012). The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.

  5. Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Income inequality was the largest driver of the change in the poverty rate, with economic growth, family structure, education and race other important factors. [131] [132] An estimated 11.8% of Americans lived in poverty in 2018, [133] versus 16% in 2012 and 26% in 1967. [134]

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

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    Luke Shaefer, a poverty researcher and co-author of the book "Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America," said the U.S. has failed to reduce child poverty over the last two ...

  7. Cycle of poverty - Wikipedia

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    This theory has been explored by Ruby K. Payne in her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty. In this book she explains how a social class system in the United States exists, where there is a wealthy upper class, a middle class, and the working poor class. These classes each have their own set of rules and values, which differ from each other.

  8. Locked in the Poorhouse - Wikipedia

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    Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States is a 30-year update of the final report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission), co-authored by former Kerner Commissioner, Senator and Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Chairman Fred R. Harris and Eisenhower Foundation President Alan Curtis.

  9. Welfare dependency - Wikipedia

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    In his 1995 book The War Against the Poor, Columbia University sociology professor Herbert Gans asserted that the label welfare recipient, when used to malign a poor person, transforms the individual's experience of being in poverty into a personal failing while ignoring positive aspects of their character. [4]