It's not enough to talk about inequality, we have to ask why that inequality exists, and in doing so we must examine how the systems in which we live - political, economic and cultural - contribute to the inequalities that exist to this day. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, 'It is not enough to throw a coin to a beggar… one must address the edifice that creates beggars.'
Poverty: The Inevitable Institution examines how poverty is created and perpetuated by asking three questions: What is poverty? Why does poverty exist? How can we eliminate poverty?