Lawrence M. Eppard is assistant professor of sociology at Shippensburg University. His areas of research include poverty, economic inequality, and racial inequities. He is the author of Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality and is working on a book tentatively titled On Inequality and Freedom.
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Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with the rhetoric only ratcheting up in recent times. Our current er... SEE MORE