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Article: `The Working Poor' addresses poverty's vicious circles.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2004
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Byline: Charles Matthews
``The Working Poor: Invisible in America'' by David K. Shipler; Knopf ($25)
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David K. Shipler has a way of taking on topics about which you may think there's nothing left to be said. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land," his 1987 book about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 1997, he published "A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America," a portrait of the country's unhealed racial division.
And now, in "The Working Poor," he's writing about a subject that has been covered in such celebrated books as Michael Harrington's "The Other America," back in ...