Stephen Pimpare
Stephen Pimpare is author of A People’s History of Poverty in America, winner of the Michael Harrington Award. His latest book is Ghettoes, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down & Out on the Silver Screen. He teaches US social policy and social welfare history at Columbia University and NYU. You can follow him on Twitter @stephenpimpare.
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August 25, 2014 | Updated January 6, 2015Watch this award-winning documentary about three teenaged boys growing up in a small town in Missouri that sheds light on rural, white poverty on PBS Video.
July 23, 2014When workers have limited social welfare benefits, they are cheap and compliant, and have no choice but to accept whatever job they are offered.
June 28, 2014Poverty in the US is, in fact, a much larger problem than we think it is, and it’s one that most Americans will face.
