poor

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Teen homelessness

2018
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.
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Police training and excessive force

Introduces the reader to all sides of contemporary controversies about police training and excessive force in an objective and comprehensive way.
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Give work

reversing poverty one job at a time
2017
"Leila Janah, a dynamic social entrepreneur, shares the story of how she founded one of the hottest non-profit startups..."--Provided by publisher.
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World poverty

2016
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.
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Chopped

Robinson and his friends discover a chop shop in their neighborhood and plan to break in and steal money from it in order to help the poor.

Robinson's hood

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.

The wealth gap

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.
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The color of welfare

how racism undermined the war on poverty
1996
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.
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The bank of badness

Robinson continues stealing money from the gang the Street Rangers in order to help the poor.
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