Poverty and Power: The Problem of Structural Inequality, Second Edition

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Poverty and Power asserts that American poverty is a structural problem resulting from failings in our social system quite than individual failings of the poor. Contrary to the preferred belief that poverty results from individual deficiencies—that poor people lack intelligence, determination, or skills—writer Edward Royce introduces students to the very real structural issues that stack the balance of power in the US.

The book introduces four systems that give a contribution to inequality in the U.S.—economic, political, cultural, and structural—then discusses ten institutional problems that make life difficult for the poor and give a contribution to the persistence of poverty. Right through the book, the writer compares individualistic and structural approaches to poverty to assess strengths and limitations of each and every view.

The second edition of this provocative book has been revised Right through with new statistical information, in addition to analysis of the contemporary recession, the Obama presidency, increasing political polarization, the upward thrust of the Tea Party and appearance of the Occupy Movement, new anti-poverty movements, and more.


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