It's been exactly 50 years since Americans, or at least the non-poor among them, "discovered" poverty, thanks to Michael Harrington's engaging book The Other America.
No critic will be able to startle the electorate this year by discovering poverty in our midst; now we know all about it.
No matter how many books he wrote, he was always introduced as "the author of The Other America" or as "the man who discovered poverty" or as "America's leading socialist," or all three.
If President Bush gets beyond the typical rhetoric concerning the plight of Africans, he'll discover that poverty throughout the continent is a matter of life and death -- indeed, mainly death.
But the SPM model, which was first introduced by U.S. Census Bureau in 2011, provides a more optimistic look at child poverty in the U.S. The SPM model discovered child poverty has actually declined since 1990, while official measurements by the federal government has reflected no substantial change.
In his memoirs, he says that he first discovered that poverty existed, as a child growing up in an overwhelmingly poor country, by reading John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
But if there is one thing the world has discovered about poverty reduction in the past 15 years, it is that development is not something rich countries do to poor ones.
Later, Dellarobia is quizzed by a self-righteous eco-campaigner about her lifestyle, only to discover that her poverty makes her just about the lowest possible emitter of carbon in the United States.
A one-hour ferry ride from the city, Ischia is a 17-square-mile island of parched tufa and bougainvillea that has hardly changed since the languid summers when Ferrante's teenage protagonists – fleeing Naples' stultifying heat and poverty – discover their respective sexualities on the thermal beach at Maronti.
The federal government did not get involved until the Clutch Plague, when millions of middle-class Americans discovered that poverty--and not a chicken in every pot--was just around the corner.
