Sasha Abramsky, a British journalist wrote a popular sociology non-fictional book titled The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. He is also the author of seminal books Inside Obama’s Brain (2009) and Voices of Poverty. Almost five decades after the publication of the revolutionary The Other America written by Michael Harrington, whereby he narrated how poverty is prevalent and cripples America with great vengeance leading to social problems and conflicts, the author seeks to build on the radical scholarly work (Abramsky, 2014). Abramsky relies on statistics and empirical data to analyze wages, housing, education, and the heath care. He depicts the horrors of poverty as a state of diversity, complexity, desperation,
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He roots his proposal on four primary sources of revenue: an educational opportunity fund; higher taxes on high-end inheritances, incomes, and capital gains; a public-works fund; lastly, a poverty-mitigation fund supported by an energy profit taxes and financial transaction tax (Abramsky, 2014). Abramsky proposes ways to spend the money to promote equitable social compact in U.S. He perceives that the change will need proactive and informed electorates to facilitate a citizen-led agitation for …show more content…
The author should also have concentrated on the private sector since it is also a big employer, but Abramsky thinks there is an opportunity to increase the tax for the high earners. The many solutions proposed by Abramsky are expensive for instance, allowing a struggling college student to access the food stamps despite being unemployed. The logic is not to make him/her drop-out of college to guarantee his/her eligibility. The government must flexibly fund the school lunch programs meant for the poor children to cushion them from hunger since mid-year recession pushes families into abject poverty. Abramsky would have fortified his argument by monitoring the chain reaction of childhood nutrition and poor infant to poor school performance and reduced brain
He roots his proposal on four primary sources of revenue: an educational opportunity fund; higher taxes on high-end inheritances, incomes, and capital gains; a public-works fund; lastly, a poverty-mitigation fund supported by an energy profit taxes and financial transaction tax (Abramsky, 2014). Abramsky proposes ways to spend the money to promote equitable social compact in U.S. He perceives that the change will need proactive and informed electorates to facilitate a citizen-led agitation for …show more content…
The author should also have concentrated on the private sector since it is also a big employer, but Abramsky thinks there is an opportunity to increase the tax for the high earners. The many solutions proposed by Abramsky are expensive for instance, allowing a struggling college student to access the food stamps despite being unemployed. The logic is not to make him/her drop-out of college to guarantee his/her eligibility. The government must flexibly fund the school lunch programs meant for the poor children to cushion them from hunger since mid-year recession pushes families into abject poverty. Abramsky would have fortified his argument by monitoring the chain reaction of childhood nutrition and poor infant to poor school performance and reduced brain