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1	Framework for Understanding Poverty more books like this by Ruby K Payne, PhD add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.49!
2	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America more books like this by Barbara Ehrenreich add to wishlist In this study of America's minimum wage workers, the author explains how she went under cover several times, taking on different low-wage positions, to determine how adults who lack higher education survive. After working at Wal-Mart and as a waitress, she concluded that the working poor should be afforded more health care, housing assistance, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx more books like this by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc add to wishlist The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.23! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Working Poor: Invisible in America more books like this by David K Shipler add to wishlist 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 struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America more books like this by Paul Tough add to wishlist Geoffrey Canada is a driven, brilliant crusader for children who argues that to change the lives of poor children, everything has to change--their schools, their families, their neighborhoods--all at once. Tough offers a behind-the-scenes look at Canada's Harlem Children's Zone organization. see all copies from $8.89! new only from $8.89! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Class: A Guide Through the American Status System more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day more books like this by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford add to wishlist About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must ... see all copies from $27.56! new only from $27.56! \| SVS
8	Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities more books like this by Ruby K Payne, PhD add to wishlist see all copies from $18.90! new only from $27.00! \| first editions
9	Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist "Important and compelling . . .cking facts and figures with the affecting, even tragic stories and voices of homeless families . . . read this book".--USA Today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	How the Other Half Lives more books like this by Jacob A Riis add to wishlist Published in 1890, "How The Other Half Lives" was an instant best seller in the United States. This critical edition is based on the 1901 edition of the work, provided by The Jacob A. Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. 'Contexts' includes a section on Riis in his own words in addition to his contemporaries' reaction to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The other America; poverty in the United States more books like this by Michael Harrington add to wishlist IN see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.40! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare more books like this by Frances Fox Piven add to wishlist see all copies from $2.82! new only from $10.16! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America more books like this by Leon Dash add to wishlist Based on a series that first appeared in the "Washington Post" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is the story of one woman, Rosa Lee, and her family living in the projects in Washington, DC. Leon Dash spent four years following the fortune of this family in an effort to understand--on a human level, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy more books like this by William Julius Wilson add to wishlist Wilson candidly discusses the social pathologies of the ghetto and provides a comprehensive explanation of the rise of this "ghetto underclass; " he then recommends a public policy agenda to improve the life chances of this group. 7 line drawings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform more books like this by Karen Seccombe add to wishlist This down-to-earth look at the welfare system provides readers with stories from welfare recipients themselves and from those who recently left welfare for work: how they got onto welfare, what the reality of welfare (and welfare reform) is for them, issues in raising their families, their plans, hopes, and dreams are for the future, and some of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.00! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Tragedy of American Compassion more books like this by Marvin Olasky add to wishlist A history of American efforts to fight poverty from the 18th century to the present by Marvin Olasky, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.40! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass more books like this by Theodore Dalrymple add to wishlist This book is a searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $10.28! \| SVS
18 view cover	Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Expanded Edition more books like this by Jay MacLeod add to wishlist I aint goin to college. Who wants to go to college? Id 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, his counselor in a youth program. MacLeod was struck by the seeming self-defeatism of Freddie and his friends. How is it that in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $61.50!
19 view cover	Grand Central winter : stories from the street more books like this by Lee Stringer add to wishlist Stories about the homeless and destitute in New York, by a writer who has been there. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Poor People more books like this by William T Vollmann add to wishlist A National Book Award-winning author travels the globe and meets with impoverished individuals where they live to document firsthand the causes and effects of poverty. Two 16-page photo inserts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	White Collar: The American Middle Classes more books like this by C Wright Mills add to wishlist This volume, a second edition of what has become a major work of American sociological thought, demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life - originating from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes - represent modern society as a whole. In his thesis, by examining white-collar life, Mills aimed to learn something ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.56! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Second Edition with a New Foreword by Joe Feagin more books like this by Jay MacLeod add to wishlist }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 stereotypes. MacLeod's return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, revealed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99!
23 view cover	Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America more books like this by Cynthia M Duncan, Robert Coles, M.D. (Foreword by) add to wishlist This work takes us to three remote rural areas in the USA to hear the tales of the residents - the poor, the rich, and those in between - as they talk about their families, work, hard times, and their hopes. It provides an insight into the dynamics of poverty, politics and community change. see all copies from $2.80! new only from $12.72! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America more books like this by Katherine S Newman, Victor Tan Chen add to wishlist This urgent examination of the lives of millions of hardworking Americans--neither poor nor middle class, but who live without a safety net--gives voice to the 57 million Americans who are sandwiched between the poor and middle classes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations & Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood more books like this by Jay MacLeod add to wishlist Jay MacLeod's classic ethnography - a defining work on the cycle of social reproduction - now includes a third section that continues the lives of the original "Brothers and Hallway Hangers" through new interviews and analysisThis classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is ... see all copies from $19.73! new only from $25.35! \| SVS

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