The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (54 page)

Children, in poverty,
10
,
54–55
,
117–119
,
147–148
,
156

     
and deep poverty,
111

     
and foster care,
267–269

     
and homelessness,
60–61
,
146–147
,
267

     
and housing,
238
,
267–269

     
and immigration, illegal,
91
,
92

Churches,
65–66

Cincinnati,
282

Citizens’ United v. Federal Election Commission
,
51
,
326

Civil disobedience,
36

Clark, Bill,
125–127

Clarke, Hansen,
260
,
261
,
262

Class and Schools
(R. Rothstein),
206

Class warfare,
39–40

Clinton, Bill,
44–45
,
73
,
216–217
,
291

Collective empathy,
38–39

Collins, Gail,
179

Colorado,
250

Colonias,
94
,
131
,
191
,
319

Community building,
308–309
,
309–312

     
and schools,
274–275
,
276
,
278–279
,
280
,
282

Community Voices Heard,
222

Compton, California,
135

Condorcet, Marquis de
70

Connecticut,
103

Conservatism/conservatives,
66

     
and anti-government, anti-tax rhetoric,
13
,
51–53

     
and budget deficit, and safety net,
99

     
and equal opportunity,
185–187

     
and minimum wage,
177

     
and poverty, assumptions about,
136–138

     
and social programs, cuts in,
119–120

     
and talk radio,
44
,
137

     
See also individual conservative leaders and groups

Corporations,
36–37
,
51
,
175
,
296

     
and bankruptcy and pensions,
57–58
,
312–313

     
and benefit corporations,
310–311

Costanza, Tom,
88–89
,
96

Criminal justice system,
199
,
239–242
.
See also
Prisoner reentry program

Crossroads GPS,
52

Crude Oil Windfall Profit

     
Tax Act,
210

Dallas, Texas,
103

De Vincent, George,
77

Debt,
8
,
12
,
199
.
See also
National debt

Deepwater Horizon oil spill,
157–159

DeFazio, Pete,
246–247

Delaware,
149

Delaware Valley,
126–127

Delgada, Vicenta,
124–125

Delphi,
312

DeMint, Jim,
48

Democracy,
11–12
,
326–237

Democrats, congressional,
103
,
113
,
135
.
See also individual members of Congress

Dental health,
145

Detroit,
10
,
127–129

     
Focus: Hope,
307–309
,
320–321

     
urban farms in,
128–129
,
185
,
266

Diaz, Maribel,
48

Dickens, Charles,
70

Dickerson, Gloria,
111–113

“Different Anti-Poverty Programs, Same Single-Mother Poverty” (Albelda),
218

DiMause, Neil,
222

Dimon, Jamie,
36

Disabilities,
113–114
,
115–116

Disability insurance,
124–125
,
304–306
.
See also
Social insurance

Domestic workers,
37
,
297–298

DREAM Act,
92

Drew, Mississippi,
111–113

Drug tests,
135–136

Durham, North Carolina,
282

Dysfunction,
138–144

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC),
202
,
207
,
219
,
233
,
287–294
,
295–296

     
and dual-income households,
300–301

     
and minimum wage,
299–300

     
See also
Taxes
;
Wages, low

East River Development Alliance,
108

Eastern Kentucky,
131–132

Economic downturns,
217–218
,
218–220

Economic inequality,
6
,
8–9
,
31–33
,
36
,
40
,
51
,
84–88
,
197

     
highest levels of,
102–103

     
and opportunity,
53

Economic injustice, protests against,
35–38
.
See also
Occupy Wall Street

Economic justice,
vs
. wealth, accumulation of,
64–65

Economic security,
175–177
,
286–287

Edelman, Peter,
9
,
38
,
230

Edick, Aubretia,
31

Edin, Kathryn,
217

Education,
12
,
25–26
,
48
,
199
,
200–201
,
206–208
,
274–283

     
cuts in,
166–168

     
See also
Pell Grants
;
Schools

Education accounts,
257–260
,
262–263

Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF),
200
,
259–260
,
262–263
,
303
,
306
.
See also
Social insurance
;
Social Security

EITC.
See
Earned Income Tax Credit

Encelade, Byron,
31
,
157–158

Encelade, Elton,
158–159

Energy policy,
201
,
208–211

Enterprise Opportunity,
254

Environmental Protection Agency,
265

EOF.
See
Educational Opportunity Fund

Equal opportunity,
53
,
185–187

Espey, Hugh,
236

Europe,
66
,
70–71
,
72
,
84
,
98
,
186
,
245
,
246
,
256
,
317

Evans, Connie,
254

Fabela, Fidencio,
189

Fair Labor Standards Act,
82

Fast food restaurants,
296

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),
160–161

FEMA.
See
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Financial assistance programs,
210

Financial crisis of 2007–2008,
7
,
9–10
,
12
,
20
,
106
,
174

     
and education, cuts in,
166–168

Flint, Michigan,
109–110
,
130
,
265–266

Florida,
105
,
106
,
145
,
179
,
296
,
300

Focus: Hope,
307–309
,
320–321

Food assistance,
73
,
75
.
See also
Food pantries
;
Food stamp program

Food insecurity

     
in California,
132–133

     
in Texas,
179
,
181–182

Food pantries,
18–20
,
55–56
,
124–125
,
125–127
,
178
,
184
,
309
.
See also
Food assistance
;
Food stamp program

Food stamp program (aka Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program),
45–46
,
48–49
,
54–55
,
73–74
,
86
,
125
,
210

     
and anti-poverty strategies,
220–223
,
232

     
barriers to accessing,
132–135
,
221–223

     
See also
Food assistance
;
Food pantries

Force on Economic Growth and Opportunity,
31–32

Ford, Gerald,
291

Fortune Society, in New York City,
237–239

Foster care,
267–269

France, John and Stephanie,
208–209

Free Lunch
(Johnston),
53

Free markets, and economic inequality,
86–88

Freeman, Morgan,
150

Friedman, Howard,
24
,
25
,
183
,
261

Friedman, Milton,
289–291

Friess, Foster,
52

Fukuyama, Francis,
87–88

Galbraith, John Kenneth,
3
,
85–86

Ganz, Marshall,
11
,
121
,
212–213
,
233–234

Gary, Indiana,
130

Geithner, Timothy,
174

General Motors,
127
,
312

Georgia,
106
,
131
,
179

GI Bill,
261–262

Gingrich, Newt,
45–46
,
52

Giuliani, Rudy,
108

Glickman, Marcy,
49

Goehl, George,
36
,
197
,
236–237
,
244

Government spending/borrowing, and economic inequality,
84–86

Great Depression,
72
,
85
,
86

Great Recession,
148
,
178
,
181
,
206

The Great Risk Shift
(Hacker),
164

Great Society,
4
,
44
,
52
,
54
,
68
,
76
,
78
,
119–120
,
121
,
202
,
212

The Great Transformation
(Polanyi),
86
,
87

Green, Girshriela,
115–116

Green jobs and industries,
264–266

Grijalva, Raul,
286–287

Grossman, David,
271

Guaranteed income,
248–253
,
294–297
.
See also
Income

Guggan, Mark,
304

Gulf Coast,
157–159

Hacker, Jacob,
164
,
175–176
,
313

Hadlock, Jennifer,
223

Half in Ten,
196

Hannity, Sean,
39
,
137

Hardmeyer, Eric,
264

Harkin, Tom,
246–247

Harkinson, Josh,
264

Harrington, Michael,
2–3
,
4
,
13
,
45
,
46
,
73
,
79
,
81
,
86
,
131
,
138
,
153
,
191
,
213
,
323–324
,
327