The Underclass
by Ken Auletta
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"That's easy. "The Underclass," by Ken Auletta. It follows a nonprofit organization as it attempts to improve the lives of some of New York's lowest-income residents, and when I read it in 1982, it completely changed the way I think about poverty in America."
By the Book: Robert Rubin · nytimes.com