![]() ![]() Shipler is a skilled interviewer whose knack for erasing himself from the picture lends this book anintimate quality.” “This urgent new book obliterates the notion that impoverished people are simply lazy…. “Masterly… a series of memorable portraits.” “Moving and meticulous.… Unlike other sympathetic chroniclers of the working poor, he doesn’t demonize their employers.” Others, with regret perhaps, will see it as an accurate description of the inevitable costs of free market capitalism.” “Powerful.… Some may find in this eye-opening book reason to demand change. ![]() By exposing the wretched condition of these invisible Americans, he has performed a noble and badly needed service.” Murrow and more recently Barbara Ehrenreich as it seeks to alert a complacent nation about the misery and deprivation in its midst…. “In the tradition of Michael Harrington, Edward R. “Sprawling, compassionate.… Describes with clear-eyed sympathy the individuals and families who sustain the seemingly limitless appetite for low-wage work and should provide ammunition to policy makers-if there are any-who wish to seriously engage the project of eliminating poverty in America.” Winner of the Myers Outstanding Book AwardĬhosen as a Best Book of the Year by the San FranciscoĬhronicle, The Washington Post Book World, and ![]()
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