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They Will be Victors
The Remarkable Story of One Man's Passion for Second Chances
By: Robert E. Wollack, Jr.
Release Date: May 1, 2010; by Corby Books of Corby Publishing
Paperback: $19.95 (258 pages) • Hard cover: $40.00 (258 pages)
A breakthrough book about second chances and a testament to one man’s dramatic transformation from fallen cop to a life of service to, and advocacy for, those trapped in a vacuum of opportunity.
• “One in seven Americans are living in poverty”.¹
• The national poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent (43.6 million people in poverty), up from 13.2 percent the previous year.¹
• “For children younger than 18, the poverty rate increased to 12.9 percent in 2009”.¹
• Michigan’s poverty rate in 2009 was 14 percent (1.4 million people in poverty), up from 13 percent in 2008. In 2000 the poverty rate was 9.9 percent.¹
• “14.4 percent of the people in Michigan were without insurance in 2008 and 2009 compared to 12.5 percent in 2006 and 2007”.¹
¹Mike Wilkinson and Catherine Jun • The Detroit News, 9/17/10
For more information and to order a copy of They Will be Victors,visit www.robertwollack.com. To follow the They Will be Victors blog, visit www.robertwollack.com/blogs.
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