{"product_id":"the-american-way-of-poverty-how-the-other-half-still-lives-paperback","title":"The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSasha Abramsky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected as A Notable Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eThe Other America\u003c\/i\u003e, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor -- the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity has become the new norm. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e shines a light on this travesty. Sasha Abramsky brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows and, ultimately, suggests ways for moving toward a fairer and more equitable social contract. Exploring everything from housing policy to wage protections and affordable higher education, Abramsky lays out a panoramic blueprint for a reinvigorated political process that, in turn, will pave the way for a renewed War on Poverty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It is, Harrington believed, a moral outrage that in a country as wealthy as America, so many people could be so poor. Written in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, in an era of grotesque economic extremes, \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e brings that same powerful indignation to the topic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSasha Abramsky\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, freelance journalist, lecturer at the University of California, and a senior fellow at Demos. His work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNation, Atlantic Monthly, New York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Prospect, Salon\u003c\/i\u003e, Slate, NewYorker.com, \u003ci\u003eLA Weekly, Village Voice, Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His 2013 book, \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e, was listed as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year, and his 2015 volume, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Twenty Thousand Books\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected by \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best nonfiction books of the year. Abramsky lives in Sacramento, California, with his wife and their two children.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760519184672,"sku":"9781568584607","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/56e8850ad3d1a393129a3f7bb9047061.webp?v=1780182207","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-american-way-of-poverty-how-the-other-half-still-lives-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}