One Nation, Underprivileged

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An admirable and thoughtful book...Social Forces Rank's book is a must read for students and scholars studying the poverty problem. It is emotionally moving, intellectually stimulating and it inspires us to action." * International Journal of Social Welfare * Amid the commercial babble of most messages heard in a land of plenty, Rank's thesis definitely deserves a higher profile. * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * A vital book that reminds us of the greatest blind spot in American politics. * Gregg Easterbrook, The New Republic * If you routinely accept America continuing to build more and more prison space but want to debate building more schools don't read this book. If you feel good about the "Welfare to Work" law even though 25% of all workers in Iowa make poverty level wages. Mark Rank's One Nation, Underprivileged is for all the rest of us who believe poverty is a weapon of mass destruction and that we should all work to change the course this country is barreling down. * Honorable Patricia Scott Schroeder, President & CEO Association of American Publishers, and Form er Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado * Rank stands out amid the rising chorus of authors who are decrying wage stagnation and widening income gap in that he tackles the very concept of poverty and its dimensions to demonstrate how and why its pervasiveness makes it a moral and political problem that affects everyone. * America, the National Catholic Weekly * America is a wealthy land filled with poverty and economic insecurity that deny millions of our children a fair start in life. One Nation, Underprivileged attacks the problem with new and often surprising research, strong moral values, an ear for real people's voices, and a powerful sense of optimism. Mark Rank reveals how we all share the economic, social, personal, and moral costs of economic insecurity in America and shows why and how we can fight back. * Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund * One Nation, Underprivileged is a valuable book, filled with insights from research and from listening to people in poverty. It addresses fundamental questions about why those who aren't poor should care about the costs of poverty.... An important contribution to the national debate about why people are poor and what should be done about poverty in America. * Mark Greenberg, Director of Policy, Center for Law and Social Policy * Amid the commercial babble of most messages heard in a land of plenty, Ranks thesis definitely deserves a higher profile. * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * ...Offers an analytical yet passionate critique of the harsh economic reality of poverty, which will affect most of us during our lives... * Z Magazine * ...an engaging book, nontechnical in its presentation of the facts, and written with great compassion for the least fortunate among us. This volume also brings together a large and complex literature on poverty and new empirical evidence on the dynamics of poverty. * Daniel T. Lichter, Ohio State University Journal of Marriage and Family * ...an engaging book, nontechnical in its presentation of the facts, and written with great compassion for the least fortunate among us. This volume also brings together a large and complex literature on poverty and new empirical evidence on the dynamics of poverty. * Daniel T. Lichter, Ohio State University Journal of Marriage and Family *