Download or read book The Poverty Paradox written by Mark Robert (Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work Rank, Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work Washington University in St. Louis) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has been quite some time in the making. Across a number of years I have researched, taught, and written about poverty. In my opinion, there are few topics of greater importance. It is a dominant and disturbing feature of the American landscape. Yet despite the hundreds of books, articles, reports, and programs addressing the issue, the United States continues to have the highest rates of poverty among the wealthy countries"--