Reframing Poverty: New Thinking and Feeling About Humanity's Greatest Challenge

"Everyone has an explanation for poverty. The poor lack personal responsibility. There aren't enough jobs. The stresses of poverty keep people poor. Poor people have a 'culture of poverty.' The debate among these different explanations has gone on for centuries without meaningfully improving our understanding of the issue ... By looking at why we each choose one of these views over the others, Eric Meade reveals what is valid in each of these views. He then combines them to create [an] ... explanation that can deepen our understanding of poverty and stimulate wiser action to reduce it"--Publisher marketing.