poor

Examines the lives of the working poor in America--people who exist just barely beneath or a little above the federal government's official poverty line, and discusses the obstacles they face in trying to improve their circumstances.

Explores how the loss of blue-collar jobs has affected American society, focusing on the African-American urban poor who suffer from a lack of available training and education as well as declining government and private support of job programs, and outlines a series of programs that can help families of all races.

Despite her small stature, eight-year-old Chig makes large contributions to her southern Indiana community during the Great Depression.

A poor family is searching down the back of a chair for Dad's lost car keys and, miraculously in the mess of things back there, their financial problems are solved.

Describes the life of those living in the tenements of New York in the nineteenth century and focuses on alcoholism, Jewish labor, city slums, working women, crime, and children, and includes a short biography of Jacob Riis.

Explores a wide range of topics related to poverty in America, including the main causes of poverty, its impact on education, health, and government, state and federal programs to help poor families, and more.

China Cup Cameron, a fourteen-year-old single mother with only her paralyzed Uncle Simon for support, takes on tremendous personal debt in hopes of a beautiful funeral after her daughter dies.

Alice experiences a lot of changes during the summer of her freshmen year when she gets to work as an assistant camp counselor for three weeks, and then returns home to find the orderly world she left behind in turmoil.

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