Subject: Poor › United States

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Books under this subject

• The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler (601 copies)
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne (324 copies)
• The Other America by Michael Harrington (256 copies)
• Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America by Jonathan Kozol (188 copies)
• The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American… by Kevin Phillips (154 copies)
• The Culture of Contentment by John Kenneth Galbraith (138 copies)
• All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol B. Stack (98 copies)
• Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of… by Michael Eric Dyson (92 copies)
• Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care… by Jonathan Cohn (80 copies)
• Just Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in… by Ronald J. Sider (57 copies)
• The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the… by Myron Magnet (53 copies)
• Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward… by John P. Kretzmann (52 copies)
• The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America by Katherine S. Newman (33 copies)
• Within our Reach by Lisbeth Schorr (32 copies)
• One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects… by Mark Robert Rank (32 copies)
• The Underclass by Ken Auletta (31 copies)
• The New American Poverty by Michael Harrington (31 copies)
• Why Americans Don't Vote by Frances Fox Piven (29 copies)
• The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty… by Herbert J. Gans (27 copies)
• Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy (Bk… by Howard Karger (22 copies)
• The South goes North by Robert Coles (20 copies)
• Poverty in America: A Handbook by John Iceland (19 copies)
• Poverty in the American Dream: Women & Children First (Inc… by Holly Sklar (18 copies)
• The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on… by Michael B. Katz (18 copies)
• Merchants of Misery: How Corporate America Profits from… by Michael Hudson (15 copies)
• Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the… by Alice O'Connor (15 copies)
• The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination by Bradley R. Schiller (13 copies)
• America Needs Human Rights by Anuradha Mittal (11 copies)
• From Cradle to Grave: The Human Face of Poverty in America by Jonathan Freedman (9 copies)
• Poverty and the Poor by Gerald Leinwand (8 copies)
• The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in… by Felicia Kornbluh (8 copies)
• If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the… by Peter T. Davis (7 copies)
• Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (The W. E.… by Marian Wright Edelman (7 copies)
• The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in… by Ann Fabian (7 copies)
• Still hungry in America by Robert Coles (7 copies)
• Myth of the Middle Class by Richard Parker (7 copies)
• Culture and Poverty; Critique and Counter-Proposals by Charles A. Valentine (7 copies)
• The economics of poverty by Alan B. Batchelder (7 copies)
• The politics of turmoil;: Essays on poverty, race, and the… by Richard A. Cloward (7 copies)
• The discovery of poverty in the United States by Robert H. Bremner (6 copies)
• Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It by Frank Stricker (6 copies)
• Poverty Views From the Left by Jeremy Larner (6 copies)
• The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the… by William Loren Katz (6 copies)
• The New Politics Of Poverty: The Nonworking Poor In America by Lawrence M. Mead (6 copies)
• Poverty: Opposing Viewpoints (6 copies)
• Subsistence U.S.A by Carol Hill (6 copies)
• Jacob A. Riis: Photographer & citizen by Jacob A. Riis (6 copies)
• Ending welfare as we know it by R. Kent Weaver (5 copies)
• In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate by Joan Moore (5 copies)
• A Framework: Understanding and Working with Students and… by Ruby K. Payne (5 copies)

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