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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Best Price: $3.50 This was me! For those who reviewed the book and said that Ehrenreich was...	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Best Price: $7.63 I loved it. It was a page turner. It was a nice balance of serious ... very serious stuff about...	The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Best Price: $7.92 Jeffrey Sachs uses his broad knowledge to frame the context of a call for action to end extreme...	A Framework for Understanding Poverty Best Price: $15.75 This seller never shipped the book and never returned my emails as to why. I ordered it for a...	Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism Best Price: $12.93 As someone in the midst of trying to make a small business run within the lines of corporate...



Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System Best Price: $13.57 I won't cover the same ground as Mr. Vannoni did. His review is spot on. I wish I had seen it...	The Working Poor: Invisible in America Best Price: $8.43 I never received the book, so I don't know how I can review it. Do you have any logical suggestions?	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) Best Price: $11.68 Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver...	The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood Best Price: $8.45 You'd think that if you watched The Wire this won't have anything you don't already know, and...	Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents (Hardcover)) Best Price: $16.97 This book summarizes Mr. Polak's work with his company, IDE (International Development...



Bridges Out of Poverty Best Price: $19.99 Very insightful reading. Would be a great read for anyone working in social services. It is...	Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The Best Price: $2.98 Kozol's Amazing Grace is a true eye-opener. After reading it, I feel that I had nothing close...	The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos Best Price: $17.45 I learnt a lot about present World economics from this book. I recommend reading it for a better...	Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life Best Price: $10.00 Very interesting and readable book about childrearing differences in different social classes....	Class: A Guide Through the American Status System Best Price: $4.79 The bulk of this book is dedicated to consumer spending habits and while much has changed over...

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass Best Price: $7.50 The author is just dripping in self-righteousness. He places 100% of the blame for bad...	Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Best Price: $12.70 As a social worker who deals with the population portrayed in this book day in and day out, I...	Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity Best Price: $6.99 For the first time ever, areas of the U.S. have a lower life expectancy- but only poor areas....	Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty Best Price: $15.07 Winne has authored a brilliant treatise on the real issues surrounding food insecurity in The...	When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor Best Price: $5.75 I was confused to read reviews that tried to refute Wilson's knowledge in this field such as...

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Best Price: $8.97 Few books in American history have had the social impact that Jacob A. Riis's How the Other Half...	Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor Best Price: $17.45 Here in its fullest glory, we get to see both the geography and the calculus of living in the...	Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence Best Price: $0.50 I'll be brief. My mom told me about this book years and years ago. I finally read it a few years...	Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South Best Price: $7.31 James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful,...	The City of Joy Best Price: $2.07 An outstanding book. Highly recommended as essential reading for any thinking person and any...

How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step Guide Best Price: $7.47 How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step Guide by Mike Davis,...	Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women Best Price: $8.96 I have been reading and researching the United States homeless issues for a few months and found...	Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Second Edition with a New Foreword by Joe Feagin Best Price: $8.50 When I was in college, I read several chapters of Ain't No Makin It as assigned reading for a...	Promises Not Kept: Poverty and The Betrayal of Third World Development Best Price: $20.21 but it's just that. So if you're in the market for anything else, look.. well elsewhere. This...	Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery Best Price: $7.94 This book is edited by Jesse Sage and one other author. The forward was written by Gloria...

Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom Best Price: $8.19 I didn't finish the book because the author just kept talking around the subject, lots of...	The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization Best Price: $8.94 I recently read this book while on a trip to Haiti, which seemed fitting. This is a wonderful...	The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order Best Price: $16.47 Chossudovsky is a brilliant economist and a burning torch for the truth that people are unable...	Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform Best Price: $6.99 I read this book over the Christmas holidays and it was definately a worthwhile read. This book...	American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare Best Price: $3.36 The book above was suppose to arrive sooner than when I received it. Unfortunately I had to...

Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality Best Price: $20.02 A collection of old articles from the nineties, rewritten in book-form. Some chapters seem a bit...	Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality Best Price: $20.02 A collection of old articles from the nineties, rewritten in book-form. Some chapters seem a bit...	Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare Best Price: $10.05 This book by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward came out over three decades ago. And it is...	NO SALVATION OUTSIDE THE POOR: Prophetic-Utopian Essays Best Price: $13.89	Faith the Cow Best Price: $14.66 I was referred to the book and got a general description there but what the heck? No...

Poor People Best Price: $10.25 If you imagine poverty as the planet's oceans, William Vollman is like a world-traveling...	World Hunger: Twelve Myths Best Price: $7.32 A friend of me, who lives in Europe, lent this book to me, some months ago.I'm an agronomist and...	World Poverty and Human Rights Best Price: $26.96 Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate...	Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities Best Price: $19.99 I have not had a chance to read the material yet.	A Place on the Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) Best Price: $15.89 This paperback edition of A Place on the Corner marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Elijah...

London Labour and the London Poor (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.84 This review refers to the Penguin Classics edition of Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the...	London Labour and the London Poor (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.84 This review refers to the Penguin Classics edition of Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the...	Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America Best Price: $4.95 I have been reading several reviews of books by Jonathan Kozol and I am disappointed. For...	In Defense of Elitism Best Price: $4.79 The late journalist William A. Henry was a registered Democrat with a membership in the ACLU. At...	Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference (Rodolfo DeBenedetti Lectures) Best Price: $18.85 I used this book for two courses as a freshman at Princeton University. One of them was a...

Freedom from Poverty As a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? Best Price: $27.04 Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together...	Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America Best Price: $1.99 The debate over how best to help the poor seems to be polarized around the logical conclusions...	No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City Best Price: $5.39 This book is an ethnographic study of the working poor. The author is a social scientist. ...	Poverty in America: A Handbook Best Price: $16.95 Today in our nation's Capitol at least between 5,000 and 10,000 poor are living, dying, and...	Understanding Poverty Best Price: $31.29 Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of...

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