Amongst the richest countries, the United States has some of the highest rates of indigence, especially for children; levels of poverty that are exorbitant for visible minorities and single mothers; a growing maldistribution of income and wealth; and seemingly never-ending increases in the use of soup kitchens and food pantries.
Author: Larry Patriquin
LARRY PATRIQUIN is an Associate Professor of Social Welfare and Social Development at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario. He is the author of Inventing Tax Rage: Misinformation in the National Post (Fernwood, 2004) and Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860: Rethinking the Origins of the Welfare State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He can be reached at larryp@nipissingu.ca.
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