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Poverty, by America is a sociological analysis of poverty and its causes in the United States.Desmond's central thesis is that wealthy Americans, even those who would otherwise consider themselves progressive, tacitly benefit from government policies that keep people in poverty.
Murray's main thesis is that social welfare programs, as they have historically been implemented in the United States, tend to increase poverty rather than decrease it because they create incentives rewarding short-sighted behavior not conducive to escaping poverty in the long term. [3] [4] [10] [11]
The Working Poor: Invisible in America is a 2004 book written by Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler. From personal interviews and research, Shipler presents in this book anecdotes and life stories of individuals considered the working poor. [ 1 ]
The poverty rate, however, is low in some low tax countries like Switzerland. A comparison of poverty rates between states reveals that some low tax states have low poverty rates. For example, New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate of any state in the U. S., and has very low taxes (46th among all states).
America’s Youngest Outcasts 2010 documents the numbers of homeless children in every state and ranks the states from 1 (best) to 50 (worst) using data and research on the extent of child homelessness, child well-being, risk for child homelessness, and state planning and policy activities.
Each nation has its own threshold for absolute poverty line; in the United States, for example, the absolute poverty line was US$15.15 per day in 2010 (US$22,000 per year for a family of four), [22] while in India it was US$1.0 per day [23] and in China the absolute poverty line was US$0.55 per day, each on PPP basis in 2010. [24]
Many Americans tend to forget there is a significant fraction of the population that still has trouble making ends meet every day.
The culture of poverty emerges as a key concept in Michael Harrington's discussion of American poverty in The Other America. [6] For Harrington, the culture of poverty is a structural concept defined by social institutions of exclusion that create and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in America.