This essential book is a call to action, and one hopes it will accomplish what Michael Harrington’s The Other America achieved in the 1960s — arousing both the nation’s consciousness and conscience about the plight of a growing number of invisible citizens.
Writing with clear-eyed compassion for these men, women and especially children at society's margins, they emphasize the extent to which the adults embrace the prototypical American values of hard work and individual responsibility.
