The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

David K. Shipler

15 hours, 13 minutes first pub 2004 (editions) user-added

nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the inv...

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4.03
based on 527 reviews

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informative: 100%

sad: 87%

reflective: 75%

challenging: 50%

emotional: 25%

hopeful: 12%


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87% of readers chose slow
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