Poverty - United States
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Poverty, by America
$28.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: bec… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593239911
- Language: English
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Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition): On (Not) Getting by in America
$18.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
Millions of Americans work full- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808316
- Language: English
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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
$32.65 Read moreTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, orde
- Author: Freeman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977427
- Language: English
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending Us Poverty
$18.95 Read moreFOREWORD INDIES FINALIST — POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD 1ST RUNNER UP — CULTURE & MONTAIGNE MEDAL NOMINEE- Author: Goldblum, Joanne Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1637743459
- Language: English
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The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate
$29.95 Read moreA Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2022: Politics – Winner of the 2024 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan Institute
Everything you know about income inequality, poverty, and other measures of economic well-be
- Author: Gramm, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1538167387
- Language: English
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Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
$17.99 Add to cart“DON’T believe the naysayers. The American Dream–the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you’ll make it–is alive and well.”
—New York PostAdam W. Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings is
- Author: Shepard, Adam W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0061714275
- Language: English
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The Other America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 068482678X
- Language: English
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0553447432
- Language: English
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive
$36.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land’s memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehr… [more below]- Author: Land, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0316505110
- Language: English
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Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
$41.58 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craft
When economist Angus Deato- Author: Deaton, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247625
- Language: English
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When We Walk by: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
$20.95 Add to cartHow to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.
A deeply humanizing analysis that will chang- Author: Adler, Kevin F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1623178843
- Language: English
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Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country
$19.95 Read moreA collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans.
Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599654
- Language: English
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0553447459
- Language: English
