And over the last four decades, millions of poor people, immigrants and native-born alike, have risen from poverty, without recourse to the government programs that Harrington inspired.īut brushing aside the War on Poverty's failure and the success of so many in climbing America's economic ladder, this generation of authors dusts off the old argument for a new era. These new journalists face a tougher task than Harrington's, though, because all levels of government have spent about $10 trillion on poverty programs since his book appeared, with disappointing, even counterproductive, results. Today, a new generation of journalists is straining to duplicate Harrington's feat-to convince contemporary America that its economic system doesn't work for millions and that only government can lift them out of poverty.
prosperity lay tens of millions of people stuck in hopeless poverty that only massive government intervention could help. In its pages, Michael Harrington warned that the recently proclaimed age of affluence was a mirage, that beneath the surface of U.S.
Forty years ago a young, radical journalist helped ignite the War on Poverty with his pioneering book The Other America.
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