Cathleen’s Reviews > The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto > Status Update

"The fact that one percent of the nation's richest individuals controls 42 percent of the country's wealth is a stunning revelation in the wake of a recession. But, through the lens of history, we see the institutionalized precedent of greed meticulously entangled in this nation's very fabric. In fact, one could argue that America was a corporation before it was a country."