Saturday, August 16, 2008

Illegal to be Poor? You Betcha!

A great deal of our conversation in class today centered around being poor . . . homeless . . . basic struggling of human beings . . . and how it is often ignored by the members of our capitalist society. One of our class members, (Holla at A.C.) brought to our attention a book dealing with these very topics.

Click the link to read about "The Rich Get Richer and The Poor Go to Prison" by Jeffery Reiman

Also, check out the socialistworker to get a slightly different, more acerbic, commentary on this issue

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