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A Poverty Manifesto
SmileyBooks
April 2012
On Sale: April 17, 2012
ISBN: 1401940633
EAN: 9781401940638
Kindle: B007ST4B1U
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Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty
houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an
increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of
21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new
middle class poor. Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley
and Dr. Cornel West, one of the nation’s leading democratic
intellectuals, co-hosts of Public Radio’s Smiley &
West , now take on the “P” word—poverty. The Rich and the Rest of Us is the next step in the
journey that began with “The Poverty Tour: A Call to
Conscience.” Smiley and West’s 18-city bus tour gave voice
to the plight of impoverished Americans of all races,
colors, and creeds. With 150 million Americans persistently
poor or near poor, the highest numbers in over five decades,
Smiley and West argue that now is the time to confront the
underlying conditions of systemic poverty in America before
it’s too late. By placing the eradication of poverty in the context of the
nation’s greatest moments of social transformation— such as
the abolition of slavery, woman’s suffrage, and the labor
and civil rights movements—ending poverty is sure to emerge
as America’s 21st -century civil rights struggle. As the middle class disappears and the safety net is
shredded, Smiley and West, building on the legacy of Martin
Luther King, Jr., ask us to confront our fear and
complacency with 12 poverty changing ideas. They challenge
us to re-examine our assumptions about poverty in
America—what it really is and how to eliminate it now.
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