poverty

After his father leaves their family, twelve-year-old Uton Hinds, known as Tall T, tries to earn extra money in his Jamaican village and tries to further his education as he ponders how he feels about his father's behavior.

A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.

Contains twenty-five essays in which the authors examine issues related to inner-city poverty and debate its causes and possible solutions, and includes personal accounts of life in the inner city.

Offering a panoramic view of opinions selected from a diverse range of international sources, this book discusses the numerous approaches to defining, understanding, and remedying poverty.

This book is a collection of articles in which researchers, advocates, and commentators debate the causes of poverty, how poverty can be reduced in the United States, and how global poverty should be addressed.

Contains studies, surveys, and statistics on issues related to world poverty, covering the causes of poverty, emerging and transition economies, poverty and environmental hazards, and other topics.

Discusses factors that contribute to the cycle of poverty, examines the effects of poverty on people and the environment, and discusses possible solutions to the problem. Includes primary and secondary source documents, photographs, sidebars, and study questions.

Contains seventeen articles that provide a variety of perspectives on the issue of poverty, debating whether poverty is a problem, the causes of poverty, and the question of how poverty can be reduced.

Explores how Geoffrey Canada is attempting to change the lives of poor children in America through his Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety-seven-block lab in Harlem where Canada and his staff test new and controversial ideas about poverty in the United States, including his theory that poor children need everything in their lives, including their schools, neighborhoods, and family practices, changed in order to compete with their middle-class peers.