Based on a year Kozol spent interviewing the poorest of New York's poor, Amazing Grace unveils the truth about squalid living conditions, gutted educational facilities, crime, disease, and pandemic depression that plague these neighborhoods where the city effectively conceals its underclass, keeping ... employment cutbacks that target the urban working class. Forced to turn to the state for assistance, minority families find themselves in a dead-end spiral that lands them permanently in the ghetto. "Subsidized housing" in the South Bronx invariably means a rat-infested tenement straight out ...

• Word Count: 644
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate