economics+&+poverty

Readings on poverty
Separated by more than a hundred years, Jacob Riis and David Shipler wrote about poverty. Both writers have something to teach us.

//How the Other Half Lives// by Jacob A. Riis Chapter 4: //The Down Town Back-Alleys// http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/chap4.html

//A Poor Cousin of the Middle Class// by David Shipler //New York Times Magazine//, January 18, 2004