October 25, 2003

American Poverty

In Is This The Bad Neighborhood Now, Wally?, the writer comments on the deceptive nature of LA's neighborhoods in response to part of a week long series on South Central by Jill Leovy. [via L.A. Observed]

He rightly points out that our middle class oriented ideas about poverty and how the rest of the world judges poverty are not even remotely similar.

Posted by Dave at October 25, 2003 12:39 PM
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