Fifty years ago, Michael Harrington’s surprise bestseller The Other America brought “our invisible poor” out of the shadows and crucially impacted welfare reform. How might it help us face our current crisis of inequality? Join scholars and activists as they explore Harrington’s legacy and as they consider in what ways the landscape of poverty in America has both changed and remained the same.
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