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Article: Life on the edge.(The Working Poor by David K. Shipler)(Book Review)
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- Sojourners Magazine
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- September 1, 2004
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David K. Shipler. Knopf.
More than four decades ago, Michael Harrington held a mirror up to America's self-image of affluence with his searing picture of poverty, The Other America. Harrington's book was read widely--by President John Kennedy, among others--and fueled the moral and intellectual resolve behind the 1960s "war on poverty."
After two decades of a mean-spirited "war on the poor," followed by invisibility and neglect, it's hard to imagine a book about poverty commanding the same attention today. But Barbara Ehrenreich's compelling personal narrative Nickel and Dimed has remained on best-seller lists ...