20 April 2013

Poverty Expert Peter Edelman Explains How Low Wages and Racial Politics Line the Pockets of the Rich

By Adele M. Stan

Edelman finds his answers in the tangle of racialized politics, mass incarceration, displacement caused by globalization, the explosion of low-wage jobs and the dilution of democracy by moneyed interests. In his 2012 book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America [4], Edelman writes, "The American economy did not stagnate over the past 40 years: it grew, but the fruits of that growth went to those at the top."

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