unemployment

When his family comes to live on his grandfather's farm in Pennsylvania while his father is out of work, eleven-year-old Will must deal with his father's distant behavior, his grandfather's heart attack, and caring for a goose he has shot.

Sixteen-year-old Mary tries to keep her family together as they aimlessly travel the country after her father's business fails and he starts to change.

Readers learn about some of the reasons that can cause a parent to lose his or her job, and how to help their families cope with change and the possibility of hard times.

Presents George Orwell's report on conditions among the unemployed as well as the employed in the north of England in 1937,and includes his views on the failures of socialism and socialists, and features an introductory rebuttal by Victor Gollancz, one of the founders of the Left Book Club which commissioned Orwell's article.

Four-year-old Jordan tries to find his father's lost job, and failing that, joins his dad's search for a new one.

Explores the reasons people lose jobs, discusses the economic recession of the early twenty-first century, examines ways people cope with this kind of loss, and provides tips for children of unemployed parents.

Explores the history and effectiveness of the Work Projects Administration of the United States government, and how under Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s the WPA helped to find people work in the Great Depression.

Examines the issue of homelessness, discussing causes and possible solutions.

A little boy explains that his father stays home to take care of him because he cannot find work.