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Poorly Understood What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

Mark Robert Rank

What if the idealized image of American society—a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success—is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book was described as a collection of chapters that each debunk common myths about poverty, offering empirical perspectives and scholarly interviews.

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It's a book called Poorly Understood What America Gets Wrong About Poverty. And it's by three scholars, Mark Rank, Lawrence Eppard and Heather Bullock. ... each chapter in the book addresses a differe...

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The book was described as a collection of chapters that each debunk common myths about poverty, offering empirical perspectives and scholarly interviews.

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It's a book called Poorly Understood What America Gets Wrong About Poverty. And it's by three scholars, Mark Rank, Lawrence Eppard and Heather Bullock. ... each chapter in the book addresses a different myth about poverty... they write about, you know, we get some empirical perspective on kind of debunking these myths and contextualizing understandings of these questions.

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