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1. A Framework for Understanding Poverty
by Ruby K Payne, PhD
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2. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families ... More
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3. The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K Shipler
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Arab and Jew" comes a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families ... More
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4. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert, John Perkins (Foreword by)
With a new foreword by David Platt, two new chapters and a final word on how to help without hurting, this expanded edition of "When Helping Hurts" ... More
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5. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It
by Paul Collier
Global poverty, Collier argues, is actually falling quite rapidly. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, ... More
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6. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber
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 ... More
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7. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Esther Duflo
This title comes from the award-winning founders of the unique and remarkable Abdul Latfi Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory at MIT, a transformative ... More
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8. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
by Jacqueline Novogratz
Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. In that moment, she ... More
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9. The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
by Tavis Smiley, Cornel West
The authors re-examine our assumptions about poverty in America--what it really is and how to eliminate it now.
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10. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in ... More
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11. Esperanza Rising
by Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza is a young, rich girl living a fairy-tale life in the 1930s with her wealthy parents, grandmother and servants, on a vineyard and ranch in ... More
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12. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S Landes
Now in paperback: The acclaimed, bestselling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations ... More
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13. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
by Annette Lareau
"So where does something like practical intelligence come from?...Perhaps the best explanation we have of this process comes from the sociologist ...
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14. Mr Stink
by David Walliams
The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel for children by David Walliams -- beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake. ... More
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15. When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor
by William Julius Wilson
The acclaimed author of "The Truly Disadvantaged" now gives readers the most important book on race and poverty that's been written in recent years. ... More
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16. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
by William Easterly
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain higher standards of living. The ... More
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17. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Part 'EastEnders', part 'NYPD Blue', 'Random Family' is compelling and tense. It teems with passion, pain and pleasure, and shows us teen drug ... More
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18. Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
by Paul Tough
Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children who argues that to change the lives of poor children, everything has to change--their ... More
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19. The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by Jennifer Toth
Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called ... More
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20. Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
"This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well ... More
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22. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
by Paul Fussell
In his highly entertaining observations of class in America, Fussell shows how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. Funny, ... More
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23. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by James Agee, Walker Evans
Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this ... More
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24. The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
by Timothy Noah
For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% ... More
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25. American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
by Jason Deparle
Bill Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it" in his first run for president. Did it work? "New York Times" reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize ... More
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