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Dec 31, 2014moviefan01 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
If I had to list one complaint about this book, it's that the author sometimes veers into statistics land...but that's good, as it forced me to think about what he's saying. The frustrating part here is knowing that there are many great books about American poverty out there...but nothing is really going to change, is it? Why do we allow this to continue? Why do we keep electing officials (and spending billions of dollars just to elect candidates to some office)? I found the author's description (on page 108) of New York's WEP program--a rubber room/waiting room--to be eerily similar to Texas' WorkSource Career Centers.