Poverty

In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly res...

North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many t...

Introduces A Biblically Based Framework That Examines The Causes Of Poverty And What Can Be Done To Alleviate It, Providing Christians With Strategies For E...

New York Times Best Seller "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most imp...

the Blue Sweater Is The Inspiring Story Of A Woman Who Left A Career In International Banking To Spend Her Life On A Quest To Understand Global Poverty An...

Canadian politicians have, from time to time, proclaimed a war against poverty. What they are really prosecuting, however, is a war against the poor. Unemp...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion ...

New Thoughts And Reflections From The Authors Of The Inspirational New York Times Bestseller Same Kind Of Different As Me. The More Than Four Hundred Thousa...

Examines Critical Studies On High-performing, High-poverty Schools To Identify How Schools Can Fulfill The Mission Of Educating All Students To Proficiency,...

Why is it that our current twenty-first century a.d. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? At a time when religious fanaticism and a clash of civ...

In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the...

*finalist For The National Book Award* *finalist For The Kirkus Prize* *instant New York Times Bestseller* *named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, New York P...

"Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book Review The Wealt...

How does poverty impact learning, work habits and decision-making? People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth-c...

Most Americans Believe Debtors' Prisons Are A Thing Of The Past. Yet Today, People Are In Jail By The Thousands For No Other Reason Than That They Are Poor....

It has been called one of the greatest tragedies of our time. In an age of prosperity and plenty, hundreds of thousands of people continue to find themselv...

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguisha...

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen y...

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-...

“Funny, touching, tragic….A remarkable tale of corruption, child trafficking and civil war in a far away land—and one man’s extraordinary quest to ...

Poverty ended for Angie Peter's family in one generation because of the intervention of ordinary people who cared. Just Act is an inspirational guide for pe...

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individual...

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who rais...

"I invite you to look into the eyes of the homeless... they tell a story."Homelessness is a serious problem throughout North America-even in Canada and the ...

In this new and expanded edition of Chossudovsky's international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human po...