The American Way of Poverty Quotes

“As long as people think poverty is the problem,” Ganz explained, “they’re missing the whole point. Poverty is evidence of a problem; it’s not the source of the problem. They’re all based on the weakening of collective institutions—the decline of labor, of common interests. The core question is not about poverty, it’s really about democracy. The galloping poverty in the United States is evidence of a retreat from democratic beliefs and practices.”
― Sasha Abramsky, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

“Poverty is, in other words, as diverse as the United States itself. What the poor have in common, however, is an increasingly precarious existence in a country seemingly unable—or at least unwilling—to come to grips with their collective despair.”
― Sasha Abramsky, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

“...the most successful eighth graders from poor economic backgrounds had only the same chance of attaining a bachelor's degree as the least successful eighth graders from the wealthiest echelon of society”
― Sasha Abramsky, The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives