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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- Copyright Oxford University Press 2003
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- 0896-7148
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- 1468-4365
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- 10.1093/alh/ajg047
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Abstract
Gavin Jones According to the official figures of the Census Bureau, 32.9 million people in the US were living in poverty in 2001, an increase of 1.3 million on the previous year. This means that almost 12% of the population was subsisting below income thresholds deemed minimal according to family size and composition--just over $14,000 per year for a family of three. Such official measures of poverty draw criticism for their outdated and inflexible ways of evaluating need, yet few social analysts would deny that significant numbers of people in the US lack sufficient material resources for a theoretically "adequate" or "normal" standard of living.1 The problems associated with poverty--illness, illiteracy, and homelessness, for example--become more alarming still in the context of tremendous and widening economic inequality, what Paul Krugman has described as a tectonic shift in wealth and income distribution over the last three decades, away from the middle and lower classes toward the wealthiest fraction. "This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times," wrote the American social reformer Henry George in 1879, "the central fact from which spring industrial, social, and political difficulties that perplex the world" (10). For George, these
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American Literary History – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 2003