Poverty, Economics, And Society

Edited by Helen Ginsburg

Helen Ginsburg, from the Preface "The United States is the richest and most powerful country the world has known. Yet poverty and inequality remain overriding domestic problems. Violence, racial conflict, and decaying cities are commonplace, the haunting syptoms of the extensive and dehumanizing poverty that American society has failed to eradicate. College students are bewildered and worried by the conflicts that threaten to destroy American society. Anxious to understand these conflicts, they are eager to examine the realities and controversies of our time. But the traditional ... textbook approach somehow transforms seething controversy into lifeless consensus and dispels students' eagerness without providing them with genuine understanding. Poverty is indeed a controversial issue, and this book points out the controversies rather than masking or minimizing them."