The War Against the Poor
by:
Frances Fox Piven, TomDispatch
| Op-Ed
We’ve been at war for decades now -- not just in Afghanistan or Iraq,
but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor,
but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. You wouldn’t often
have found the casualty figures from this particular conflict in your
local newspaper or on the nightly TV news. Devastating as it’s been,
the war against the poor has gone largely unnoticed -- until now.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has already
made the concentration of wealth at the top of this society a central
issue in American politics. Now, it promises to do something similar
when it comes to the realities of poverty in this country.
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