Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Severe Deprivation in America

by Matthew Desmond

Copy refers to RSF, Volume 1, issues 1 & 2

Widening inequality has received much attention recently, but most of the focus has been on the top one percent or the middle class. The problems of those at the very bottom of society remain largely invisible. Along with the Great Recession, factors such as rising housing costs, welfare reform, mass incarceration, suppressed wages, and pervasive joblessness have contributed to deepening poverty in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871545012
• ISBN13: 9780871545015
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"