Being Poor in America examines the causes and factors that contribute to poverty. It discusses the experiences of being poor in urban and rural environments, and sheds light on homelessness and the role of education and health care in poverty.
Explores the issues surrounding teen homelessness. Presents diversity of opinion on the topic including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance.
This book examines the forms that poverty takes around the world and describes poverty's many causes, the serious negative consequences that it has for individuals and societies, and the efforts to eliminate it.
Robinson, living in a neighborhood with a lot of gang violence, risks stealing money from the Street Rangers to pay for a new roof to save the community center.
Presents articles and essays espousing opposing viewpoints on the concept of the wealth gap in the United States and how rich people relate to the poor, with arguments for and against the government taking action to eliminate the wealth gap.
The author argues that race is a dominant factor in the United States' failed war on poverty and demonstrates how Johnson's "War on Poverty" became embroiled with the Civil Rights Movement.
