If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781497682320)

At each stage of their lives--from infant cribs to teen dropouts to welfare dependents to basement shelters for the elderly--the people of the underclass are shunned by the rest of the population, even by the working poor. The cycle is vicious: Underclass children get little help in their own homes (when they have homes); they are shoved aside at school until they drop out like their parents did; they are unable to find decent work without an education; they have children of their own for whom they cannot provide adequate care; and finally, they are dumped into human (but inhumane) warehouses for the not-quite-deceased. America cannot afford to do this to its poorest citizens; we cannot afford not to rescue the underclass. In the richest country on earth, the people of the underclass are not merely a problem, they are a scandal.

Author: Peter Davis
ISBN-10: 1497682320
ISBN-13: 9781497682320
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2015
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d