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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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Anti-poverty psychology


Carr, Stuart C.
New York : Springer, [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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Beside one's self : homelessness felt and lived


Robinson, Catherine, author
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011. 2011

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Blaming the victim : how global journalism fails those in poverty


Lugo-Ocando, Jairo, author.
London : PlutoPress, 2015. 2015

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Coming of age in the other America


DeLuca, Stefanie, author.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2016] 2016

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Dignity : seeking respect in back row America


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

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Dirty Kids : Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads


Urquhart, Chris, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Greystone Books, [2017] 2017

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The divide : American injustice in the age of the wealth gap


Taibbi, Matt.
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014] 2014

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Divided : the perils of our growing inequality



New York ; London : The New Press, 2014. 2014

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Divided : the perils of our growing inequality



New York ; London : The New Press, [2014] 2014

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Down, out, and under arrest : policing and everyday life in skid row


Stuart, Forrest, author.
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. 2016

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Downeast : five Maine girls and the unseen story of rural America


Georges, Gigi, author.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] 2021

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Eliminating human poverty : macroeconomic and social policies for equitable growth


Mehrotra, Santosh K., author.
London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 2007

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Elite perceptions of poverty and inequality



Cape Town : David Philip ; London and ; New York : Zed Books : Distributed in the USA exclusiverly by Palgrave Macnillan, 2005. 2005

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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city


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

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Families and Food in Hard Times : European comparative research.


O'Connell, Rebecca, author.
London : UCL Press, 2021. 2021

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Fractured cities : social exclusion, urban violence and contested spaces in Latin America



London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 2007

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Free the beaches : the story of Ned Coll and the battle for America's most exclusive shoreline


Kahrl, Andrew W., 1978- author.
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 2018

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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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Heartland


Smarsh, Sarah, author, narrator.
New York : Audioworks, imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio, [2018] 2018

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Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth


Smarsh, Sarah, author.
New York : Scribner, 2018. 2018

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Heartland : a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth


Smarsh, Sarah, author.
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company , 2018. 2018

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Hidden Hunger : Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods


Kimura, Aya Hirata, 1974- author.
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2013. 2013

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High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing


Austen, Ben, author.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] 2018

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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis


Vance, J. D., author.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] 2016

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Hogs wild : selected reporting pieces


Frazier, Ian.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 2016

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Home safe home : housing solutions for survivors of intimate partner violence


Botein, Hilary, 1965- author.
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] 2016

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Homeless in Las Vegas : stories from the street


Borchard, Kurt, 1968-
Reno, Nev. : University of Nevada Press, [2011] 2011

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Homeless people



Thirroul : The Spinney Press, 2013. 2013

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Homelessness and social policy



London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. 1997

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How the poor can save capitalism : rebuilding the path to the middle class


Bryant, John, 1966- author.
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, [2014] 2014

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Improving poor people : the welfare state, the "underclass," and urban schools as history


Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014, author.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997. 1997

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The invisible safety net : protecting the nation's poor children and families


Currie, Janet M.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2006] 2006

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Launching the war on poverty : an oral history


Gillette, Michael L.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010

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Living in a hut.


Ndandani, Monde, author.
[Place of publication not identified] AFRICAN SUN MEDIA.  

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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive


Land, Stephanie, author.
New York : Hachette Books, 2019. 2019

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Maid : hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive


Land, Stephanie, author, narrator.
New York, NY : Hachette Audio, [2019] 2019

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Manifesto for a moral revolution : practices to build a better world


Novogratz, Jacqueline, author.
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. 2020

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The Mole People : Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City


Toth, Jennifer.
[Place of publication not identified] : Chicago Review Press, 1995. 1995

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Mothers' work and children's lives : low-income families after welfare reform


Johnson, Rucker C.
Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2010. 2010

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No such thing as a free gift : the Gates Foundation and the price of philanthropy


McGoey, Linsey, author.
New York : Verso, 2015. 2015

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Not a crime to be poor : the criminalization of poverty in America


Edelman, Peter B., author.
New York : The New Press, 2017. 2017

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On the clock : what low-wage work did to me and how it drives America insane


Guendelsberger, Emily.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 2019

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Our day to end poverty : 24 ways you can make a difference


Daley-Harris, Shannon.
San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2007] 2007

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Out of Poverty : What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail


Polak, Paul.
[Place of publication not identified] : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009. 2009

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The people of the abyss


London, Jack, 1876-1916.
[Waiheke Island] : Floating Press, [2009] 2009

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Pharmacy on a bicycle : innovative solutions to global health and poverty


Bing, Eric G.
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [2013] 2013

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A place called home : a memoir


Ambroz, David, author.
New York, NY : Legacy Lit, 2022. 2022

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