Poverty & Homelessness
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Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor
$29.95 Add to cartThis timely investigation reveals how sustained tight labor markets improve the job prospects and life chances of America’s most vulnerable households
Most research on poverty focuses on the damage c- Author: Newman, Katherine S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0520379101
- Language: English
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Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and- Author: McCallum, Jamie K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619919
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreFrom Venezuelan reporter Paula Ram? comes a powerful memoir about one woman’s complicated relationship with her family as her beloved homeland collapses into ruin.
In the span of a generation, oil-rich
- Author: Ramón, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1542036917
- Language: English
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More Than Money: How Economic Inequality Affects Everything
$12.95 Add to cartEconomic inequality affects everybody.
No matter how rich or poor you are, economic inequality impacts every aspect of your life–the place where you live, the opportunities you experience, the health
- Author: Dyer, Hadley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1773217011
- Language: English
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Bad Witch Burning
$17.99 Read moreFor fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 059317738X
- Language: English
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You Are the World: Creating Global Oneness
$14.95 Add to cartDid you ever consider that your actions impact everything in this world? That you are responsible for – a co-creator of – the world we live in? Fr. Brian McCormick tells us, “YOU are the world,” that
- Author: Smythe Oliaro, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218261610
- Language: English
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: How the Working Poor Became Big Business
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America’s largest and fastest-growing industries–the business of poverty. Bro… [more below]
- Author: Rivlin, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061733202
- Language: English
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We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
$16.95 Read moreA graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting–and beating–calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their comm… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1644212420
- Language: English
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Mayor of the Tenderloin: del Seymour’s Journey from Living on the Streets to Fighting Homelessness in San Francisco
$28.95 Read moreThe unforgettable account of Del Seymour, who overcame 18 years of homelessness and addiction to become one of the most respected advocates in San Francisco
In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alis- Author: Owings, Alison
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020575
- Language: English
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Poverty: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNo one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, we find ourselves in a situation where millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank in 2010, 1… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jefferson, Philip N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198716478
- Language: English
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is freedom worth to you?
At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime in Viet Nam, Quyen saw his freedoms being taken away.
- Author: Ha, Quyen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736849107
- Language: English
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Humor, Humility, Homelessness: Life In A Small Town’s Shelter
$9.00 Add to cartWhen Arthur Palmer started working in the homeless shelter, he did not expect to find much humor there. Surprisingly, it permeates the place: it could be found everywhere. It is part of survival, part
- Author: Palmer, Arthur P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1088051200
- Language: English
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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
$23.99 Add to cartOver the past three decades, racial prejudice in America has declined significantly and many African American families have seen a steady rise in employment and annual income. But alongside these enco… [more below]
- Author: Shapiro, Thomas M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0195181387
- Language: English
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Far Less
$13.99 Add to cartFrom atop a towering redwood tree, seventeen-year-old Jesse can see beyond the difficult reality of his life on the ground. Homeless, Jesse camps in the forest with his drug-addicted mom and little si
- Author: Wollenberg, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1947112333
- Language: English
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism in the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed that fully investigates our food system to explain what keeps Americans from eati… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Tracie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1439171963
- Language: English
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
$19.99 Add to cartIn an age obsessed with wealth, Christians seem to have forgotten that scripture encourages believers to give to the poor. Why do 1.3 billion people live in abject poverty? And what should Christians
- Author: Sider, Ronald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0718037049
- Language: English
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Runner
$15.99 Add to cartWhen a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina. Chase knows how much he … [more below]
- Author: Deuker, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0618735054
- Language: English
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Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization
$27.95 Add to cartJay Levy’s Pretreatment In Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilization provides the reader with a wonderfully crafted, detailed step-by-step manual with real-world scena
- Author: Levy, Jay S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1615995943
- Language: English
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We’ll Fly Away
$10.99 Add to cartNational Book Award Longlist Title * Booklist Editors’ Choice * CYBILS Young Adult Fiction Finalist * Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Young Adult Fiction * Paste Magazine Best Book * YALSA Best Fiction
- Author: Bliss, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0062494287
- Language: English
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Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and What We Can Do about It
$19.99 Add to cartUncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor–and what Americans must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare a
- Author: Parker, Star
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2010
- ISBN10: 1595552235
- Language: English
