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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United Statesthe most affluent country in the worldthis book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

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World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

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Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving and self-indulgent ideologies, poorly tested theories and policies, weak governments, and poverty alleviation programs that are questionably designed and poorly administered.

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Following the hardcover success, and in the tradition of Maid, a galvanizing, stirring memoir about child homelessness, where David Ambroz endures living on the streets and in foster care and rises to become a leading advocate and go-to changemaker for child welfare.

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What - and who - is a city for

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Prizewinning, bestselling Italian author. Rights sold in over twenty languages. Over 150,000 copies sold to date.

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Between 130,000 and 285,000 New Zealand children live in poverty: these alarming figures are widely discussed, yet often poorly understood. Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple look hard at the questions, and identify some real options for action.

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The Poverty Alleviation Series Volume One - Eighteen Stories in Shibadong Village

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Winner of the Orwell Prize 2018.

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The Poverty Alleviation Series Volume Three - Red, Red Azalea

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From 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. Broke, USA is a Fast Food Nation for the poverty industry that will also appeal to readers of Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and David Shipler (The Working Poor)."

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Poor people spend their money living day to day. How can they accumulate wealth In the United States, homeownership is often the answer. Homes not only provide shelter but also are assets, and thus a means to create equity.

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True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UKs leading homelessness theatre company.

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Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the US and more than half of the metropolitan poor.

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"This is an important book." -New York Times Book Review"[A]s moving a portrait of poverty and as compelling a call to action as Michael Harrington's The Other America."-Boston Globe

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"Follows the experiences of families who have experienced homelessness in New England, tracing their struggles to maintain stable housing and their engagements with mental health and social services"--

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A compelling and ground-breaking piece of narrative journalism that gets right to the heart of divided Britain and its dysfunctional jobs climate.

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Eleven years after donating her blue sweater to Goodwill, Novogratz spotted a young boy in Africa wearing that very sweater. In that moment, she realizes how all people are connected, which sets the author on a lifelong course to fight poverty worldwide.

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Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty.