The Forgotten Americans

by John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy

Book Overview

Does the American Dream still exist when nearly 30 million Americans live in families in which workers find a paycheck and poverty in the same envelope? Just as Michael Harrington's The Other America shocked the nation with its disclosure of poverty in the 1960s, John E. Schwarz and Thomas J. Volgy's The Forgotten Americans exposes the breadth of poverty that exists today among responsible, hardworking Americans. At the end of the prosperous 1980s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393310744
• ISBN13: 9780393310740
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"