"The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us . . . The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation."
                                              - Michael Harrington

How Can You Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps if You Don’t Have Boots?