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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Working poorly:

A glance at the back dust cover is not promising. Yet Shipler's book deserves a read. The profiles are well written, informative, varied, exhaustive, complex and illustrative. Compassion for the subjects is elicited and deserved. Some subjects struggle and do get by, if barely, due more to informal charity and kinship than by government (anti-)poverty programs. Their stories are especially noteworthy. Shipler's meticulous candor supplants Ehrenreich's solipsistic book, "Nickled and dimed in America."... more info

"It is time to be ashamed.":

The sentence above is how David K. Shipler ends his heart-rending work on the invisible citizens of America--namely, the working poor. He is absolutely correct.

The people he writes about are the ones who sew your clothes, do your gardening, pick your crops, hand you coffee at the local convenience store. They are your neighbors, your fellow citizens, maybe some of them are even your friends and relatives.

Shipler addresses the interconnected problems of poverty in a way that is informative and far from... more info

trash:

Some trash I had to read for school. Don't waste your time or money.

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