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Apr 17, 2012 · "The Rich and the Rest of Us" is what it sells itself to be: a poverty manifesto. Tavis Smiley and Cornel West provide a comprehensive, compelling account of the history and experience of poverty in the United States.
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Apr 17, 2012 · The Rich and The Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, a collaborative work by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, constructs a portrait of poverty in the United States today that is at once disheartening as well as inspiring and empowering.
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About The Rich And The Rest Of Us. Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor.
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The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto is a 2012 political, non-fiction book written by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West. [1] [2] [3] [4] The book examines poverty in America and how to eliminate it.
- Tavis Smiley, Cornel West
- 2012
Apr 17, 2012 · With 150 million Americans persistently poor or near poor, the highest numbers in over five decades, Smiley and West argue that now is the time to confront the underlying conditions of systemic...
Feb 17, 2020 · 222 pages : 22 cm. The authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America-- what it really is and how to eliminate it now. Portrait of poverty -- Poverty of opportunity -- Poverty of affirmation -- Poverty of courage -- Poverty of compassion -- Poverty of imagination -- A poverty manifesto. Includes bibliographical ...
Now, the two inveterate firebrands share what they witnessed on that peripatetic caravan in The Rich and the Rest of Us, an eye-opening opus which discusses the burgeoning phenomenon of poverty in chilling detail via a combination of statistics and anecdotal evidence.
