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Nothing wrong with an academic approach
By F. Tore - October 27, 2007Today in our nation's Capitol at least between 5,000 and 10,000 poor are living, dying, and going hungry in the streets each day. This is appalling for supposedly the richest and most powerful nation on earth.
Obviously some people believe it is all the fault of the poor that they are poor in America. This is only true if a person is mentally and bodily able to work. Poverty in America has many causes and I believe John Iceland begins to address the problems. Sad that someone may find this book too academic. What do they want, a Christian fundamentalist emotional approach to the subject? Fine. But if you want a more objective approach, this is where to start.
Iceland advances several arguments through the course of this book. "First, views of poverty vary over time and place. What it meant to be poor in the early twentieth century is not the same today. Nor is the standard of what constitutes poverty in the United States the same as that in the developing... read more
Hedonistic Consumerism?
By J. Held - December 28, 2008John Iceland defines poverty through the use of methods used to measure it. He explains its causes, offers an explanation as to who suffers from it and why, as well as what can be done to reduce or eliminate poverty.
Poverty is economic, or income, deprivation resulting in one's inability to sustain oneself. Poverty has two primary measurements resulting in much controversy as to which is to be used by governmental institutions. Absolute poverty is measured by using a subsistence level of income as a line that when crossed under results in deprivation of the bare necessities to sustain life. Relative poverty is much more difficult to understand in that it is measured subjectively over time but also geographically. This form of poverty uses as it line of income a point at which one is required to meet if one is to be socially acceptable into one's group or community. There is a certain living standard one is expected to uphold depending on one's status group. I would call... read more
Academic affair depicting poverty in charts and graphs
By M. Swinney "Marc My Words" - June 19, 2005John Iceland has taken a devout stab at analyzing poverty in the United States from an academic standpoint. In fact, this book is obviously a publishable doctoral dissertation clocking in at a scant 152 pages of readable text with the rest covering footnotes and references. Sure looks like a dissertation to me.
Its not that this book is bad, it's just fails to put a face on poverty. One can read the book and gather big picture analysis of the trend in American poverty and discover fodder for debating the policy issue, but one through reading the book doesn't come to know the poverty-stricken people any better. To do that through reading would require picking up a copy of "The Working Poor," by David Shipler or "Getting nickled and dimed in America," by Barbara Ehrenreich. Iceland's work reaches out to academics and policy-makers and helps them to understand poverty measures, characteristics of the poverty population (through statistics albeit), causes of poverty, and... read more
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