“So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America,” by Peter Edelman

Posted by on March 05, 2013

Across America today, great opportunities exist alongside vast inequities. In our country, and in
our region, how do we confront the deepening inequality that stifles our children’s – and our
region’s – growth and potential?

Check out Peter Edelman’s new book entitled, “So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America,” which offers an uncompromising look at the increasing poverty in America today.

More about Peter Edelman:

Currently a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center where he
teaches constitutional and poverty law, Mr. Edelman was a top advisor to Senator Robert F. Kennedy
and a member of President Bill Clinton’s Administration (from which he famously resigned in protest
after Clinton signed the 1996 welfare reform legislation). He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Arthur J.
Goldberg and for Judge Henry J. Friendly on the US Court of Appeals, and served as special assistant to
US Assistant Attorney General John Douglas. He is currently chair of the District of Columbia Access to
Justice Commission and is board chair of the American Constitution Society, the Public Welfare
Foundation, and the National Center for Youth Law. He received his BA from Harvard College and his JD
from Harvard Law School.