“ Until we in this time include the eradication of poverty as part of our economic recovery efforts, as FDR tried to do in his time, no matter how much we attempt to rebuild the nation’s economy through better trade practices, enhanced workers’ rights, and investments in infrastructure and the ‘green economy’, tens of millions of Americans, literally, will still be left impoverished.
Leo Hindery, Jr.: America’s Dirty Little Secret: Who’s Really Poor in America?
