The poverty paradox : understanding economic hardship amid American prosperity /
Mark Robert Rank.
- 212 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book has been quite some time in the making. Across a number of years I have researched, taught, and written about poverty. In my opinion, there are few topics of greater importance. It is a dominant and disturbing feature of the American landscape. Yet despite the hundreds of books, articles, reports, and programs addressing the issue, the United States continues to have the highest rates of poverty among the wealthy countries"--