The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
- ISBN-10
- 0807041394
- ISBN-13
- 9780807041390
- Series
- The Missing Class
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 258
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Authors
- Katherine S. Newman, Victor Tan Chen
Description
"This book is ... about the millions of people who hold down two or three jobs ... and struggle to find time to read to their kids ... It's about the people who have made it out of poverty, but for how long? ... Through meticulous research, Katharine and Victor tell the personal stories of nine families ... You'll find yourself rooting, as I did, for each and every one of them. In sharing their lives and struggles, these families have done more to educate than any set of statistics or government report ever could. Policymakers, journalists, think tanks, and people of good conscience everywhere must take notice ... [The Missing Class] is a call to action to change America ... Like other books that transformed our nation, [it] will inspire us to work for ... an America where the family you were born into or the color of your skin never controls your destiny." Book jacket.
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- 2008-09-01
- 272 pages
- Paperback
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