poor

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home.

Explores the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which the residents of Maquis Park, a poor African-American neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, struggle to survive.

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

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.