From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfoldsof Working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.
But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying ho.
Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the Invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology hard, honest work.
As David K.
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfoldsof Working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty