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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
by Jeannette Walls  Publisher Comments Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in...
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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...
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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 worldas 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...
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world — and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the...
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Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents)
by Paul Polak Synopsis Based on his 25 years of experience, Polak explodes what he calls the Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths: that we can donate people out of poverty, that national economic growth will end poverty, and that Big Business, operating as it does now, will...
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Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
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Bait and Switch
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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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
by Muhammad Yunnus
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...
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Where We Stand: Class Matters
by bell hooks Synopsis Where We Stand is a powerful new book by one of America's most admired critics and writers. For years we have turned to bell hooks-feminist, social thinker, memoirist, teacher-for her deeply felt ideas on women, race, culture, sexuality, and more...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher Comments Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
by Katherine S Newman Publisher Comments Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest workers and families benefited from...
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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women
by Elliot Liebow Synopsis he observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant struggles, their humor, compassion and...
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
by Michelle Kennedy Publisher Comments The shocking story of a suburban mother's plunge into homelessness Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs...
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Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
by Jay Macleod Publisher Comments “I ain’t goin’ to college. Who wants to go to college? I’d just end up gettin’ a shitty job anyway.” So said Freddie Piniella, an eleven-year-old boy from Clarendon Heights low-income housing project, to Jay MacLeod...
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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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The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke
by Angela Nissel
Publisher Comments "People always say I?m going to look back on these days and laugh — why put it off?" When Angela Nisell found herself struggling financially while in college, instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an online journal...
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Ain't No Makin It: Aspirations & Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
by Jay Macleod Publisher Comments With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the "Brothers" and "Hallway Hangers." Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic...
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Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform
by Sharon Hays Publisher Comments Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2 million in 2003. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced...
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Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare
by Chad Alan Goldberg Publisher Comments There was a time when America’s poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights—a predicament that forced them to forfeit their citizenship in exchange for economic relief. Over time, however, our welfare...
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The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
by Felicia Kornbluth Publisher Comments The Battle for Welfare Rights chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating story of the National Welfare Rights Organization, the largest membership organization of low-income people...
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