Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty

ISBN-10
0190881410
ISBN-13
9780190881412
Series
Poorly Understood
Category
Poor
Pages
242
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Authors
Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock, Mark R. Rank

Description

"To our knowledge, Poorly Understood is the first book to systematically address and confront many of the most widespread myths pertaining to poverty. Throughout each of our careers we have encountered these myths on a routine basis. They can be found virtually everywhere - from the political rhetoric emanating out of the highest office in the land to the neighborhood gossip down the street. It would seem as if everyone has a heated opinion about the poor, with the heat rising even higher when the topic of welfare is thrown into the mix. Yet as we shall see throughout these chapters, the realities of poverty are much different than the myths. In many ways they are more disturbing. The idealized image of American society is one of abundant opportunities, with hard work being rewarded by economic prosperity. Consequently, those who fail to get ahead have only themselves to blame according to this argument. It is within this context that America thinks of itself as a fair and meritocractic society in which people get what they deserve in life"--

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Other editions

Similar books

  • Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People
    Getting to Scale: How to Bring Development Solutions to Millions of Poor People
    By Laurence Chandy, Akio Hosono, Homi Kharas

    The book suggests that the challenge of scaling up can be divided into two solutions: financing interventions at scale, and managing delivery to large numbers of beneficiaries.

  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    By Oliver Sacks

    In this book, Oliver Sacks explores the power music wields over us–a power that sometimes we control and at other times don’t.

  • Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem
    Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem
    By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research

    This book will be of interest to those looking to learn more about the enormous public health burden of sleep disorders and sleep deprivation and the strikingly limited capacity of the health care enterprise to identify and treat the ...

  • Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe
    Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe
    By Andrew Pettegree, Flavia Bruni

    Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether.

  • Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes
    Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes
    By Mark Robert Rank PhD, Thomas A. Hirschl PhD, Kirk A. Foster PhD

    Combining personal interviews with dozens of Americans and a longitudinal study covering 40 years of income data, the authors tell the story of the American Dream and reveal a number of surprises.

  • Bureaucracy
    Bureaucracy
    By David Beetham

    Chapter 1 Among the numerous approaches to bureaucracy from the standpoint of the sociology of organization are Blau and Meyer , Burns and Stalker , Clegg and Dunkerley , Gross and Etzioni , Merton ( ed . ) ...

  • The Common Marmoset in Captivity and Biomedical Research
    The Common Marmoset in Captivity and Biomedical Research
    By James G. Fox, Robert P. Marini, Lynn M. Wachtman

    The Common Marmoset in Captivity and Biomedical Research is the first text dedicated exclusively to this species,filling an urgent need for an encyclopedic compilation of the existing information.

  • The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32)
    The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32)
    By Stephen P. Hubbell

    In this book, Stephen Hubbell develops a formal mathematical theory that unifies these two fields.

  • Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign
    Words That Matter: How the News and Social Media Shaped the 2016 Presidential Campaign
    By Jonathan M. Ladd, Stuart N. Soroka, Michael W. Traugott

    But this book also demonstrates how the modern media environment can exacerbate the kind of pack journalism that leads some issues to dominate the news while others of equal or greater importance get almost no attention, making it hard for ...

  • How the Mind Works
    How the Mind Works
    By Steven Pinker

    Klaw, S. 1993. Without sin: The life and death of the Oneida community. New York: Pen— guin. Klein, R. G. 1989. The human career: Human biological and ... Kosslyn, S. M., Pinker, S., Smith, G. E., Schwartz, S. P., 81 commentators. 1979.