Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream

Is poverty a fact of life? Can the wealthiest nation in the world do nothing to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty — or the 50 million American's living in 'near poverty'? Senator Edwards and other prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists say otherwise.

• Author
• John Edwards, Marion G. Crain, Jacob S. Hacker, Harry J. Holzer, Jack F. Kemp, Sara McLanahan, Carol Mendez Cassell, Ronald B. Mincy, Hillard Pouncy, Katherine S. Newman, Melvin V. Oliver, Thomas M. Shapiro, Michael S. Barr, Peter Orszag, Dennis K. Orthner, Hugh B. Price, John Karl Scholz, Ruston Seaman, Michael Ferber, Michael Sherraden, David K. Shipler, Beth Shulman, David Spickard, Jared Bernstein, Michael A. Stegman, Elizabeth Warren, William Julius Wilson, Anita Brown-Graham, Arne L. Kalleberg, Martin Eakes, Richard B. Freeman, Angela Glover Blackwell

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• The New Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781595581761

• Genres
• economics

• Release date
• 2007