![]() But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology hard, honest work. ![]() ![]() From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. Introduction: At the edge of poverty - Money and its opposite - Work doesn't work - Importing the third world - Harvest of shame - The daunting workplace - Sins of the fathers - Kinship - Body and mind - Dreams - Work works - Skill and willĪn intimate portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse and charges the government with failing to provide adequate housing, health care, and education. ![]() ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index ![]()
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