A really angry book, levelling the blame for poverty at the reader. The essential argument is that poverty exists because we allow it to, because it benefits the wealthier of us. To suggest that there are insufficient resources to pull everyone out of poverty is absurd, it’s just a lack of will, or, more accurately, deliberate policy. Far more government hand-outs, in the form of tax breaks on assets and wealth (things like the mortgage interest deduction) accrue the rich than traditional welfare does to the poor.
There are the usual policy suggestions, but underlying all of them (but not spoken out loud) is a need to rearrange our society to help all its citizens and not just the wealthy and powerful. A need for the have-nots to work together, regardless of race or other divisions, to fight the status quo.