POVERTY & PREJUDICE: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
POVERTY & PREJUDICE: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
You’re invited to read my blog post on Is History The Agreed Upon Lie?
As a baby boomer that grew up in an average middle-class family in America during the 1950s and 1960s, poverty was not something I had to dwell on or even think about as a child or as a teen. For me, poverty was an unknown concept.
Poverty in America during the 1950s and 1960s was simply ignored in our wealth-burgeoning society. I was not alone in my ignorance. “[In fact, it’s been more than 50 years] since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, ‘discovered’ poverty, thanks to Michael Harringtton’s engaging book The Other America.” (Twisting the Phrase “Culture of Poverty” Barbara Ehrenreich March 16, 2012). Read it all at… POVERTY & PREJUDICE: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
I look forward to hearing from you.
Bette A. Stevens http://www.4writersandreaders.com
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Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author 
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on 10/19/2013