Customer Review: This book provides information, both statistical and anecdotal, on the structural perspective of poverty. Inspirational and eye-opening, Rank reminds us that our social, economic, and political systems are to blame for the existence of poverty in America.
Customer Review: Living on the Edge provides a representation of the bleak and desperate conditions that the typical welfare recipient endures. Mark Robert Rank offers an alternative perspective of those who use the welfare system that contradicts the views of popular media and political beliefs. Through statistical... more info
Customer Review: This study was very helpful to my sociology work in graduate school and gives evidence of actual patterns that occur and reoccur in our culture and others. I was struckthat some studies needed a little more explanation to make it clear as to why the research was done a certain way. I hope that this... more info
