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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America


Edin, Kathryn, 1962-
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. 2015

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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America


Edin, Kathryn, 1962-
[Minneapolis, MN] : Highbridge Co., [2015] 2015

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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America


Edin, Kathryn J.
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Ain't nobody be learnin' nothin' : the fraud and the fix in high-poverty schools


Rossiter, Caleb S., author.
New York : Algora Publishing, [2015] 2015

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America unequal


Danziger, Sheldon.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995. 1995

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American children in chronic poverty : complex risks, benefit-cost analyses, and untangling the knot


Lamy, Cynthia E. (Cynthia Esposito), 1960-
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington, [2013] 2013

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American children in chronic poverty : complex risks, benefit-cost analyses, and untangling the knot


Lamy, Cynthia E. (Cynthia Esposito), 1960-
Lanham : Lexington Books, 2014. 2014

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American poverty in a new era of reform


Rodgers, Harrell R.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2006] 2006

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The American way of poverty : how the other half still lives


Abramsky, Sasha.
New York, NY : Nation Books, [2013] 2013

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The american way of poverty : How the Other Half Still Lives


Abramsky, Sasha.
New York : Nation Books, 2013. 2013

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The American way of poverty : how the other half still lives


Abramsky, Sasha, author.
New York, NY : Nation Books, 2014. 2014

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American winter.



[United States] : Collective Eye Films, 2013. 2013

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Automating inequality : how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor


Eubanks, Virginia, 1972- author.
New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2018. 2018

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Blaming the victim


Ryan, William, 1923-
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1976. 1976

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Broke in America : seeing, understanding, and ending US poverty


Goldblum, Joanne Samuel, 1964- author.
Dallas : BenBella Books, [2021] 2021

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Broke, USA : from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. : how the working poor became big business


Rivlin, Gary.
New York : Harper Business, [2010] 2010

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Broke, USA: from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. ; how the working poor became big business


Rivlin, Gary.
[United States] : Harper Collins Publishers : Made available through hoopla, 2010. 2010

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Child poverty and inequality : securing a better future for America's children


Lindsey, Duncan, 1947-
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009

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Class : a memoir


Land, Stephanie, 1978- author.
New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2023. 2023

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Class : a memoir of motherhood, hunger, and higher education


Land, Stephanie, 1978- author.
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2024. 2024

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Class counts : education, inequality, and the shrinking middle class


Ornstein, Allan C.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. 2007

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Cold new world : growing up in a harder country


Finnegan, William.
New York : Random House, [1998] 1998

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Consequences of growing up poor



New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. 1997

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Destinies of the disadvantaged : the politics of teenage childbearing


Furstenberg, Frank F., 1940-
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2007] 2007

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Dignity : seeking respect in back row America


Arnade, Chris, author, photographer.
[New York] : Sentinel, [2019] 2019

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Does the death penalty make us a better society?


Prejean, Helen, author
[United States] : AuthorHouse, 2003. 2003

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Economic apartheid in America : a primer on economic inequality & insecurity


Collins, Chuck, 1959-
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2000. 2000

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Economic apartheid in America : a primer on economic inequality & insecurity


Collins, Chuck, 1959-
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. 2005

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Economics in America : an immigrant economist explores the land of inequality


Deaton, Angus, author.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023] 2023

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Ending poverty : changing behavior, guaranteeing income, and transforming government


Kennedy, Joseph V.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2008] 2008

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Ending poverty in America : how to restore the American dream



New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, 2007. 2007

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Ending Poverty in America : How to Restore the American Dream.


Edwards, John, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : The New Press, [2009] 2009

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Ensuring inequality : the structural transformation of the African-American family


Franklin, Donna L., author.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015. 2015

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city


Desmond, Matthew, author.
New York : Crown, [2016] 2016

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city


Desmond, Matthew, author.
[United States] : Findaway World : Random House, [2016] 2016

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city


Desmond, Matthew, author.
Farmington Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017. 2017

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city


Desmond, Matthew, author.
New York : B\D\W\Y, Broadway Books, [2017] 2017

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A few thousand dollars : sparking prosperity for everyone


Friedman, Robert (Robert E.), author.
New York : The New Press, 2018. 2018

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A few thousand dollars : sparking prosperity for everyone


Friedman, Robert (Robert E.), author.
New York : The New Press, [2018] 2018

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The fight to save the town : reimagining discarded America


Anderson, Michelle W., author.
New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022. 2022

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Food and poverty : food insecurity and food sovereignty among America's poor



Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. 2018

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From cradle to grave : the human face of poverty in America


Freedman, Jonathan, 1950-
New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993. 1993

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Getting me cheap : how low-wage work traps women and girls in poverty


Freeman, Amanda, author.
New York : The New Press, [2022] 2022

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Going for broke : living on the edge in the world's richest country



Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2023 2023

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The great divergence : America's growing inequality crisis and what we can do about it


Noah, Timothy.
New York : Bloomsbury, [2012] 2012

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Growing up empty : how federal policies are starving America's children


Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta.
New York : Perennial, 2003. 2003

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Growing up empty : the hunger epidemic in America


Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta.
New York : HarperCollins, 2002. 2002

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Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America


Tirado, Linda, author.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2014] 2014

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Hand to mouth : living in bootstrap America


Tirado, Linda, author.
New York : Berkley Books, 2015. 2015

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Hunger in America.



[United States] : Green Planet Films : Made available through hoopla, 2015. 2014

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