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Article: WHITE MEN ARE THE INVISIBLE POOR.(Perspective)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 22, 1987
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Byline: Michael Harrington
Twenty-five years ago, in "The Other America," I described how the poor in America were "invisible."
Today, there is enormous concern with the hungry, the homeless, families headed by women and the impossible conditions in the ghettoes and barrios. But for most people, the second-largest group of the poor is still invisible.
It is composed of white males. There are more white men who are poor than the total of the black poor, male and female, or all of the aging poor. There are significantly more poor people in families headed by men, and white men in particular, than in those headed by women. Between 1979 and 1983, ...