poverty

When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?.

Presents a diverse selection of primary sources representing different perspectives on homelessness, including the severity of the problem, the role of government social assistance programs, and possible solutions.

We, in America, have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why "poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.

With the help of some friends and a Tejano hero that he discovers in history class, thirteen-year-old Trino copes with his problems and his world.

Argues that in order for Africa to prosper, it must revert back to its centuries-old traditions of free enterprise, free markets, and free trade, urging Africa to improve and build upon its own indigenous institutions rather than following the economic models of foreign powers.

Argues that federal, state, and local governments can and should do something to alleviate poverty and inequality.

"India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this, "new" India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India, ??s children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics, blames this discrepancy on the narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that, in its newfound relationship with business, has prioritized economic growth above all other social and political considerations. In fact, according to Kohli, the resulting inequalities have limited the impact of growth on poverty alleviation, and the exclusion of such a significant proportion of Indians from the fruits of rapid economic growth is in turn creating an array of new political problems. This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India, ??s rise in the world that its democratic rulers will be forced to come to grips with in the years ahead"--.

"Presents a global look and the positive and negative effects of aid given by richer countries to poorer countries."--Provided by publisher.

A deft blend of tough investigative reporting and deep compassion, it combines the politics of hunger in America with the heart-breaking stories of its victims.