Interview with Kristina C. Miller, author, Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States
Abstract
It’s been an article of faith among scholars and activists alike that poor Americans are ignored in national politics. But what if that conventional wisdom is wrong, and poor people, at least rhetorically, are in fact as commonly referred to by Presidents in their State of the Union addresses and in Party platforms as many other supposedly more favored groups? Kristina C. Miler’s Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2018) simultaneously gives the lie to these claims while offering rich new evidence to describe how and why most members of Congress fail to follow through on such rhetoric, even if they represent poor districts, and what we might do to remedy this imbalance.
Publication Date
11-6-2018
Journal Title
New Books Network
Publisher
Amherst College Press
Document Type
Interview
Recommended Citation
Stephen Pimpare interviewing Kristina C. Miller, author, Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States, Cambridge University Press (November 6, 2018) (https://bit.ly/2RBrbQU)