The attention is on Katrina, but on Tuesday the Census Bureau released new figures showing that poverty continues to increase, with the number of Americans living in poverty rising to 37 million, up 1.1 million from 2003.
Drawing on Michael Harrington’s seminal The Other America, published in 1962, I address this sad development over at The Reaction.
The war on terror dominates the news, but clearly America could do with a war on poverty, too.