Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

Mark Robert Rank is the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on issues of poverty, inequality, and social justice. His research has been reported in a wide range of media outlets.

Lawrence M. Eppard is assistant professor of sociology at Shippensburg University. His areas of research include poverty, economic inequality, and racial inequities. He is the author of Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality and is working on a book tentatively titled On Inequality and Freedom.

Heather E. Bullock is professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She also serves as the director of the Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance. Her areas of interest include the social psychological dimensions of economic inequality.

Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, including one for Never Say Die by Susan Jacoby.