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No Shame in My Game: the Working Poor in the Inner City
by Katherine S. Newman  Publisher Comments " Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer" In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are...
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Empower Zone: Photographs by Teenagers Living in Empowerment Zones and Enterprising Communities
by Stephen Shames Publisher Comments An uplifting series of photographs by American teens living in neighborhoods of renewal Imagine presents inspiring photographs by forty teenagers living in four communities that are part of government antipoverty programs-in Lowell, Massachusetts...
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Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform
by Bruce A Weber Book News Annotation Weber (Rural Policy Research Institute), Greg Duncan (Joint Center for Poverty Research), and Leslie Whitener (Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture) present 16 contributions to a joint research conference jointly sponsored by...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich 
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Developing Countries: Ngo Innovations in India
by Vikram Patel Publisher Comments `A worthwhile collection of experiences from several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across India in the field of mental health.... A useful sourcebook in gaining insight of the various non-formal efforts in mental health care delivery in India...
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A Life of One's Own
by David Kelley Publisher Comments The welfare state rests on the assumption that people have rights to food, shelter, health care, retirement income, and other goods provided by the government. David Kelley examines the historical origins of that assumption, and the rationale used to...
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The Prisoners of Welfare: Liberating America's Poor from Unemployment and Low Wages
by David Raphae Riemer Publisher Comments Every year, the welfare system in America absorbs billions of dollars--money that could be used to eliminate poverty by creatingjobs and subsidizing wages. The Prisoners of Welfare proposes a comprehensive alternative to America's fundamentally flawed...
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Living at the Edge of the World
by Tina S Publisher Comments When Tina S. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. Soon she's bingeing on crack...
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If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass
by Peter Davis Publisher Comments When the acclaimed author of "Where Is Nicaragua?" went in search of America's growing underclass— the persistent poor— he discovered a frighteningly large segment of the population for whom our cherished notions of equal opportunity...
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The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen
by Ange Marie Hancock Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from...
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The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor
by Charles Karelis Publisher Comments Why hasn’t the poverty rate fallen in four decades, despite society’s massive and varied efforts? The notable philosopher Charles Karelis contends that conventional explanations of poverty rest on a mistake. And so do the antipoverty policies...
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Best Practics in Poverty Reduction: An Analytical Framework (International Studies in Poverty Research)
by Else Oyen Publisher Comments Poverty reduction has come to be proclaimed as the core function of international development agencies, including the World Bank. This book focuses on a notion of best practice, and the key role which it can potentially play in strengthening anti-poverty...
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Workforce Intermediaries for the Twenty-First Century
by Robert Giloth Publisher Comments Confronted with businesses facing a long-term shortage of skilled workers and evaluations showing that job training for the poor over the past 25 years had produced only meager results, a number of groups throughout the country have sought to find a more...
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Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (For & Against Series)
by David Schmidtz Publisher Comments The issue of social welfare and individual responsibility has become a topic of international public debate in recent years as politicians around the world now question the legitimacy of state-funded welfare programs. David Schmidtz and Robert Goodin...
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Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass
by Christopher Jencks Publisher Comments One of the foremost sociologists of our time makes a fervent appeal for clearer thinking on race, poverty, crime, and the underclass....
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Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, 1918-1939
by Richard Godden Book News Annotation With a cover featuring Dorothea Lange's famed "Migrant Mother" photograph, this collection of a dozen essays offers fresh perspectives on the area that FDR called "the nation's number one economic problem." This image (one of many featured) that came...
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The Word on the Street: Homeless Men in Las Vegas
by Kurt Borchard Publisher Comments Just beyond Las Vegas's neon and fantasy live thousands of homeless people, most of them men. To the millions of visitors who come to Las Vegas each year to enjoy its gambling and entertainment, the city's homeless people are largely invisible...
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How to Save the Underclass
by Robin Laptho Marris Book News Annotation Marris (economics, London U.) deploys statistical and sociological data to argue the merits of prioritizing national and international growth as a means to solve the pressing issues of the emerging underclass. The author traces growth slowdown as the...
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Way Home
by Nan Roman Publisher Comments Now children can keep their favorite animals, bugs, and other creatures as pets -- and hold dinosaurs or the sun and moon in their hands! These irresistible little board books are small enough to fit in a tiny fist or the pocket of a backpack. Printed on...
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The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families
by Janet M. Currie Publisher Comments The modern social safety net is under attack. So argues economist Janet Currie in one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system. Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash...
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