If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass

By Peter Davis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1497682320
• ISBN13: 9781497682320
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Moving and masterful

Peter Davis has written a moving but sad chronicle of the terrible problem of poverty in the US. The National School Lunch program was started at the beginning of WWII because a significant number of recruits were found to be suffering from the effects of malnutrition. Do we need to have another war before we address the problems of the poor of the present day? Newt Gingrich and his buddies need to read this book.