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One Nation, Underprivileged$
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Mark Robert Rank

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780195101683

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195101683.001.0001

In Our Self-Interest

Chapter:
(p. 85 ) 4 In Our Self-Interest
Source:
One Nation, Underprivileged
Author(s):

Mark Robert Rank

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195101683.003.0004

This chapter builds a case on self-interest. Poverty drains Americans both individually and as a community and society. Each individual directly and indirectly pays a high price for allowing poverty to walk in the midst of society. The chapter discusses a set of analyses that demonstrates for the first time the fact that the majority of Americans experience poverty at some point during their lives. Unbeknownst to many, poverty touches Americans in their own backyard. Such a connection is demonstrated.

Keywords:   self-interest, United States, American poverty, poverty risk, poor in America

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