rural poor

Dorothea Lange

Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress

1980

1997

Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.

micro-lending and the battle against world poverty

2003

Muhammad Yunus discusses the obstacles he overcame in setting up a bank devoted to providing the poor of Bangladesh with small loans.

1987