This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s,"

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out

Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.

If, as many allege, attacking the gap between rich and poor is a form of class warfare, then the struggle against income inequality is the longest running war i