The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
Sasha Abramsky, University of California, Davis

In this October 2013 seminar, Center Faculty Affiliate Sasha Abramsky discussed his work researching and writing about today’s poor for his new book The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.

Abramsky is a Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis. Abramsky has spent 20 years as a journalist, with work appearing in The Nation, The Atlantic, The Guardian and others. In 2011, he founded Voices of Poverty, a web-based project that chronicles hardship in 21st century America.