Poverty in America by Max J Skidmore
Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly widespread notion that conditions inevitably are better in the USA than elsewhere. Political rhetoric frequently enforces such an erroneous notion: the poor live better in America than the middle class elsewhere, America has the best health care in the world, income inequality is a sign of 'freedom', and the like. With American poverty increasing, social mobility decreasing, and income inequality growing it has become urgent that our society direct its attention to poverty as one of the country's most troublesome issues. Poverty and Public Policy helps to focus that attention worldwide; this book, Poverty in America will help to emphasize the issue in this country. Max J. Skidmore (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he is University of Missouri Curators' Professor of Political Science, and Thomas Jefferson Fellow. He has been Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer in India, where he was Director of the American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad, and has been Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hong Kong. He has published over two dozen works on numerous topics, including Social Security and its Enemies (1999), Securing America's Future: A Bold Plan to Preserve and Expand Social Security (2008), Bulwarks Against Poverty: Social Security, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (2014), and Presidents, Pandemics, and Politics (forthcoming, 2016).
Max J. Skidmore is Thomas Jefferson Fellow and University of Missouri Curators' Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Skidmore has been widely published in the discipline of political science, including books on political philosophy and presidential politics. Andrew R. Cline, a former journalist, is assistant professor of journalism in the Media, Journalism & Film department at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. Cline is author of the popular Rhetorica weblog, which examines rhetorical issues in the media and politics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781633912700 |
| ISBN 10 | 1633912701 |
| Title | Poverty in America |
| Author | Max J Skidmore |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Westphalia Press |
| Year published | 2016-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 380 |
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