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As a child, Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless at nineteen, she accepts a train ticket from her aunt and uncle and travels back to the rough-hewn community. Treated like a servant by her relatives, Emma works for free in the company store. There, miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for food, clothing, and tools while those who owe money are turned away to starve. Though Emma's actions draw ire from the mine owner and police captain, they lead to an alliance with a charismatic miner who offers to help her expose the truth. And as the lines blur between what is legal and what is just, Emma must risk everything to follow her conscience.

Harry Barck, Hoboken, New Jersey's poormaster, died under suspicious circumstances on February 25, 1938. A poormaster decided who would receive public aid. The prosecution asserted that Harry Barck was killed by an unemployed mason named Joe Scutellaro. The mason said Harry's death was an accident. The defense attorneys said the poormaster's death was a symbol of larger social ills. In the end, the issues examined in the trial---massive unemployment, endemic poverty, and the inadequacy of public assistance---brought national attention to the plight of ten million unemployed Americans living in desperate circumstances. These issues remain in the headlines today.

A journey into the streets and slums where fear is the daily reality for billions of the world's poorest, where safety is secured only for those with money, and where much of the United States' well-intended aid is lost in the daily chaos of violence.

Follows a handful of people as they try to find success in the poverty-stricken settlement of Annawadi, which exists in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport in India. Examines the struggles these people overcome on the way to fulfilling their dreams and examines how their experiences reflect on the ongoing transformation of the country as a whole.

Examines the problem of world hunger, and the efforts that are being made to make sure all of the world's people are fed.

Provides a detailed picture of what life in the slums of New York was like, how the slums were created, how and why they remained as they were, and who was forced to live there, and offers suggestions for easing the lot of the poor.

In order to earn money for college, fourteen-year-old LaVaughn babysits for a teenage mother.

Explores the divide between rich and poor in America and how our criminal justice system discriminates against the poor while allowing the rich to get away with their crimes.

Over the course of time, a luxury steamship loses its luster and is eventually abandoned after changing hands many times. A wealthy family over time loses their wealth and are eventually forced out of the poorest housing available with the others in the community. But when the poor people find the ship and rebuild it, both the ship and its new inhabitants find new purpose in life.