Hunter UAP Professors Sigmund Shipp and Lynn McCormick, along with MUP alum Mary Rocco (’09), recently wrote an op-ed entitled White Poverty Must Be Good Poverty that was featured on the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute’s website. According to the article, “
[t]he invisibility of white poverty is not a benign situation. The denial of white poverty has led to the social construction of the poor as being solely a person or family of color.”