So rich, so poor why it's so hard to end poverty in America

Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an outsized number of unemployed and working poor.

Main Author:	Edelman, Peter B.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.
Subjects:	Poverty > United States. Poor > Government policy > United States. United States > Social conditions > 21st century. United States > Social policy > 21st century.

Summary:	Offers an informed analysis of how the United States can be so wealthy yet have an outsized number of unemployed and working poor.
Physical Description:	xix, 184 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-174)and index.
ISBN:	9781595587855 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1595587853 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Peter Edelman is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. A top adviser to Senator Robert F. Kennedy from 1964 to 1968, he went on to fill various roles in President Bill Clinton's administration, from which he famously resigned in protest after Clinton signed the 1996 welfare reform legislation.