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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls Publisher Comments “Nothing short of spectacular” (Entertainment Weekly), The Glass Castle is the bestselling, critically acclaimed, highly publicized, and celebrated memoir by Jeannette Walls.Millions of readers have been transformed by Jeannette Walls’s... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie Mcmillan Publisher Comments What if you cant afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldnt escape as she watched the debate about Americas meals unfold, one that urges us to pay foods true cost—which is to say, pay... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Trade Paper
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How to End Poverty in the World in Just 15 Years by Jean Pierre Twagirayezu Publisher Comments Today, with so much know how existing on this planet, there is still billions of people leaving in extreme poverty. Except for some countries often called Developed Countries, A large part of humanity live in poverty and governments of the majority of... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America by Paul Tough Publisher Comments What would it take? That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table by Tracie McMillan Publisher Comments Inspired by the growing interest in food and the conversation about what we should be eating and where it should come from award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan began to wonder how America's working class could afford, let alone have time, to eat as... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington Review The Other America is a “scream of rage, a call to conscience.” -The New York Times Book Review... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs Publisher Comments A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the worlds poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy by William J Wilson Publisher Comments "The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and... (read more) List Price $23.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth Publisher Comments Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms and this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks Publisher Comments Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Gilded Age: The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time (Studies in Social Inequality) by David B. Grusky Publisher Comments Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Trade Paper
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Publisher Comments From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Kidwatching in Josie's World: A Study of Children in Homelessness by Neva Ann Medcalf Book News Annotation Medcalf (education, Master of Arts in Reading program, St. Mary's University) reveals insight from her "kidwatching" (action research), which she originally began as part of her research on homeless children's language growth and development. She... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America by Peter Edelman Synopsis If the nations gross national income—over $14 trillion—were divided evenly across the entire U.S. population, every household could call itself middle class. Yet the income-level disparity in this country is now wider than at any point since... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Voices from the Street: Truths about Homelessness from Sisters of the Road by Jessica P. Morrell Publisher Comments Everyone has a story to tell, but not everyone, especially if that person is homeless, is given the opportunity to tell it. Thus was born Voices from the Street: Truths about Homelessness from Sisters Of The Road, a project with a unique and intimate... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People's History of Poverty in America (08 Edition) by Stephen Pimpare Publisher Comments "When you live in a shelter, other people control your life. They tell you when you may come in and when you must go out. They tell you when you can take your shower and when you can wash your clothing."'"from A People's History of Poverty and Welfare in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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