Is the Culture of Poverty Myth Keeping Us from Eradicating Actual Poverty?

[NOTE: I became obsessed — slightly — with including the report on poverty in America from the United Nations Special Rapporteur Philip Alston (pictured below, who teaches law at NYU when not reporting for the UN), even though it was released *the same day* my paper was due. Including it made my paper overlong (per the assignment) and, overall, my usual weakness of including too much from the sources may have muddled my paper’s argument — which was meant to put the Coates and Chait March 2014 debate front and center. Sigh. I’m…