The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto

The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto - Tavis Smiley, Cornel West If you are familiar with the work of West and Smiley, nothing in this book will surprise you. It is an impassioned, sincere call to action, nothing less than the eradication of poverty in America. The profiles of some of the desperately poor people they met on their poverty tour are heartbreaking, and the historical analysis of how government has gradually abandoned anti-poverty programs over the past few decades is deeply troubling. West and Smiley call for a new society of compassion, fairness, and equality. Nothing the authors propose is beyond doing but it will require radical systemic and paradigmatic change.