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Work and poverty.(Review)(The Working Poor: Invisible in America )(Book Review)
MORE than a decade ago, the political scientist Lawrence Mead predicted that the passage of workfare legislation would move American politics to the left, because mainstream Americans would be more receptive to easing the lot of "a poor population working at higher levels." To the extent that welfare reform transformed the idle poor into the working poor, the poor would be viewed with greater sympathy. The publication of David Shipler's study The Working Poor: Invisible in America ([dagger]) shows Mead's prescience. In the book, Shipler tells the stories of "working people who ha[ve] been left behind" while American prosperity soared--people whose "wages do not lift them ...
- Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: International Social Science Review Zawicki, Kathy A. September 22, 2005 700+ words
Shipler, David. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. New...Cloth, $25.00. David Shipler's The Working Poor is a journalistic account...examine the plight of the working poor. Shipler's work is also reminiscent...
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- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Collins, Chuck September 1, 2004 700+ words
...find that David K. Shipler's The Working Poor: Invisible in America...lives of America's working poor. Shipler is a gifted journalist...eliminate poverty, The Working Poor will be unsatisfying. Shipler could have done more...
- Shipler, David K. The working poor; invisible in America.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Boardman, Edna May 1, 2005 700+ words
SHIPLER, David K. The working poor; invisible in America. Random House, Vintage. 329p. notes...grocery store, they benefit from the labor of the working poor. Shipler has interviewed persons of many colors and ethnicities to put together...
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- Magazine article from: American Banker Longobardi, David April 2, 2004 700+ words
...bankers in David K. Shipler's book "The Working Poor: Invisible in America...poverty, Mr. Shipler weaves a series of...of living. "The Working Poor" has another fundamental...banking. Though Mr. Shipler's narrative has...
- `The Working Poor' addresses poverty's vicious circles.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) February 25, 2004 700+ words
...Matthews ``The Working Poor: Invisible in...by David K. Shipler; Knopf ($25...after reading "The Working Poor" is that the problem...eliminate poverty. As Shipler says, "The reality...topic may seem, Shipler's book is not...expect to find the working poor _ ...
- `The Working Poor' addresses poverty's vicious circles.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Matthews, Charles February 25, 2004 700+ words
...Matthews ``The Working Poor: Invisible in...by David K. Shipler; Knopf ($25...after reading "The Working Poor" is that the problem...eliminate poverty. As Shipler says, "The reality...topic may seem, Shipler's book is not...expect to find the working poor _ ...
- `The Working Poor' _ how America exploits people living in poverty.
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) March 24, 2004 700+ words
...Courtney ``The Working Poor: Invisible in America'' by David K. Shipler; Knopf ($25...So it's wise of Shipler to send a couple...his masterly "The Working Poor." Ehrenreich's tone was angry. Shipler's is one of quiet...
- `The Working Poor' _ how America exploits people living in poverty.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Courtney, Steve March 24, 2004 700+ words
...Courtney ``The Working Poor: Invisible in America'' by David K. Shipler; Knopf ($25...So it's wise of Shipler to send a couple...his masterly "The Working Poor." Ehrenreich's tone was angry. Shipler's is one of quiet...