Poverty & unemployment books

Teetering merges original research with stories from real-life ""tightropers"" and makes the case for urgent action...  Read More >>

Nearly half of all American adults live paycheck to paycheck. These misunderstood majority of tightropers spend...  Read More >>

How the Other Half Lives is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of...  Read More >>

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The Road to Wigan Pier is Orwell's 1937 study of poverty and working-class life in northern England.  Read More >>

Monica Prasad’s powerful demand-side hypothesis addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more...  Read More >>

In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones...  Read More >>

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This toolkit is designed to support policy-makers and practitioners in systematically applying a gender lens to...  Read More >>

In the face of the economic downturn that Nicaragua experienced in 2018 and the need for recovery, this study provides...  Read More >>

This toolkit is designed to support policy-makers and practitioners in systematically applying a gender lens to...  Read More >>

This toolkit is designed to support policy-makers and practitioners in systematically applying a gender lens to...  Read More >>

Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records, Johanna Fernandez has written...  Read More >>

Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records, Johanna Fernandez has written...  Read More >>

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals...  Read More >>

Jesus' Sermon on the Mount has influenced countless number of people for centuries. This expositional and devotional...  Read More >>

The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination. This book...  Read More >>

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The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing...  Read More >>

The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing...  Read More >>

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"Ungleichheit führt zu einer tiefen sozialen Kluft in der Demokratie und gefährdet den sozialen Zusammenhalt. Ökonomische...  Read More >>

"This book is the only book looking at personal finances in this way. Get it quickly and become a new financial...  Read More >>

""The Debt Project is a photo series of 99 portraits and handwritten stories of debt across the US""--  Read More >>

First published in 1999, this volume explores the nature of poverty and interprets it across a range of policy reforms...  Read More >>