Journalist Sasha Abramsky to speak on poverty issues

For Americans working minimum wage jobs today, the world is conspiring against success and in some cases, even survival, according to journalist and poverty expert Sasha Abramsky.

After decades of rising prosperity, the country began to see a widening gap between rich and poor in the 1970s that by 2000 had become a gulf, with tax code changes redistributing much of the country’s wealth to the very wealthiest families in the country at the expense of the middle-class and particularly the poor, he said….