poverty

A fifteen-year-old boy lives amongst the rubbish piles in the slums of Cairo and collects broken glass while hoping to find a future he can believe in.

The author describes his personal experiences after giving up his white-collar job to experience a life that is supported by a minimum wage salary, and includes his time spent as a pizza deliveryman, a construction worker, an emergency room technician, and more.

Draws on history, literature, and news stories to examine inequality of wealth throughout the world, and discuss its influence and significance.

Photographs and quotes profile members of Waco, Texas', Church Under the Bridge, a nondenominational group of individuals who are homeless and meet on Sunday mornings under an interstate overpass, and describes their cherished items that help them survive.

In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.

The author addresses issues of food shortages to people who are not able to make good choices about where and how to get nutritious food, and offers suggestions for improving food access to everyone, regardless of income.

Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

A memoir chronicling the author's attempt to see if, starting out with 25 dollars in cash, a sleeping bag, and the clothes on his back, he could obtain a car, furnished apartment, and 2500 dollars in savings after a year of living and working on the road.

A memoir chronicling the author's attempt to see if, starting out with 25 dollars in cash, a sleeping bag, and the clothes on his back, he could obtain a car, furnished apartment, and 2500 dollars in savings after a year of living and working on the road.

During the Great Depression, Hank Proctor has to put aside his dreams of becoming a doctor to care for his parents, amidst worry that his father will do something desperate.