{"product_id":"the-working-poor-the-working-poor-invisible-in-america-9780375708213","title":"The Working Poor: The Working Poor: Invisible in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eArab and Jew, \u003c\/i\u003ean intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology--hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor--white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAVID K. SHIPLER reported for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of six previous books, including the best sellers \u003ci\u003eRussia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Working Poor, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eArab and Jew, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught at Princeton, American University, and Dartmouth. He writes online at \u003ci\u003eThe Shipler Report\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199734743314,"sku":"9780375708213","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bfe4141c-3da2-4b19-a202-a98194922040.jpg?v=1744883810","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-working-poor-the-working-poor-invisible-in-america-9780375708213","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}