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Describes the benefits that voucher programs have brought to children in New York City, Milwaukee, and Cleveland, arguing that unions, bureaucracy, and spurious teaching methods have made many public schools ineffective and even detrimental.

A history of public housing in Boston from the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the housing projects of the mid-twentieth century.

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account by living in the East End (including the Whitechapel District) for several months, sometimes staying in workhouses or sleeping on the streets. The conditions he experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.--Amazon.

Explores crime-ridden poverty enclaves in in America.

Economic analysis and historical comparisons blend to show that Reagan's presidency left a huge concentration of wealth at the top that harms the poor, adds to the mounting debt and allows foreigners to grab large chunks of America. "A stunning refutation of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty , Phillips's dispassionate report offers no solutions yet zeros in on key problems,".

Presented are eight major essays on the author's developing theological insights.

Collects stills from the documentary film with the same title, photographs of the Sonagachi district of Calcutta taken by prostitutes' children living there who were taught photography by the author, and brief profiles of the young photographers.

More stories of Jennifer Worth's days as a midwife in post-World War II London.

More stories of Jennifer Worth's days as a midwife in post-World War II London.