poor

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poor

Making our way

America at the turn of the century in the words of the poor and powerless
1975

Saint Iggy

2006
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.

Ouran high school host club

2
2005
The school-wide physical examinations are coming up and the members of the Host Club try to find a way to hide Haruhi's gender so she won't lose her job.

Beth makes a friend

1998
Beth tries to help an impoverished Irish immigrant boy and his family by stealing a silver bowl from her great aunt and giving it to the O'Neills to sell.

The road out

a teacher's odyssey in poor America
2013
Deborah Hicks shares her experiences teaching in a poor neighborhood.

Hands to work

the stories of three families racing the welfare clock
2002
Examines the current state of welfare policy in the United States, focusing on how policies have changed since President Bill Clinton's Personal Responsibility Act was passed in 1996.

Poverty

Opposing viewpoints
2008
A collection of articles debating issues related to poverty in America.

A Q &

a novel
2005
After winning India's biggest quiz show, Ram Mohammad Thomas is put in jail as authorities question how a poor orphan who has never gone to school could win such a contest.

Ethan Frome

1999
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.

The hunger road

1988
Discusses world starvation, its escalation because of poverty and inequities in distributing a limited food supply, and past and present efforts to alleviate the problem.

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