"It's time to honour and reward people who work hard and play by the rules....No one who works full time and has children should be poor any more."
--Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Putting People First, 1992.
Obviously, to this day, the issue has not been attended to satisfactorily as shown by Katherine Newman's book - No Shame in my Game. The study is about examining the experience of the people living in Harlem - in a world that is vastly different from ours compared to society's customary notions regarding them. These people are visible even if the others choose not to acknowledge them.
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