“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023:The Washington Post, Time, Esquire, Newsweek, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Elle, Salon, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews The United States, the richest country on earth, has mo...
by Matthew Desmond (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-America-Matthew-Desmond/dp/0593239911 The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest ...
This paper reviews the current policies for fighting poverty and explores the impact they have had. We begin by reviewing trends in poverty, poverty spending anEllwood, David T.Summers, Lawrence H.Social Science Electronic PublishingEllwood, D. T. and L. Summers. 1986. Poverty in America: Is...
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond Crown. Mar. 2023. 304p. ISBN 9780593239919. $28. ECON COPY ISBN Pulitzer Prize–winning sociologist Desmond (Evicted) argues that poverty exists in the United States because wealthy people benefit from it. While the United States ranks among the richest ...
More than 150 countries across the four geographic regions (Arab States and Europe; Asia and the Pacific; Latin America and Caribbean; and Sub-Saharan Africa) receive support from UNFPS to mitigate the problems of hunger and poverty. It is a founding member of the United Nations Development Gr...
被引量: 40发表: 2004年 Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America (Book). Reviews the book "Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America," by Cynthia M. Duncan. Brown,David - 《American Journal of Sociology》 被引量: 41发表: 2000年 加载更多研究...
Poverty is worldwide, but empirical studies of poverty, income distribution, and low-income aid programs for citizens have thus far been more common in America, Canada, Australia, and the major industrial nations of Europe. American and Canadian studies of poverty, income issues, and social welfa...
There's No Place Like Home: How America's Housing Crisis Threatens Our Children This report pulls together recent research from the Centers for Disease Control, leading medical and public health journals, and firsthand observations by ... M Sandel,J Sharfstein,R Shaw - Housing America, 126 ...
Oxfam America | The power of people against poverty | oxfamamerica.org Reviews https://oxfamamerica.org Oxfam is a global movement of people working to end the injustice of poverty. Together we save lives, create lasting solutions, and hold the powerful accountable. ...
Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America By Diana Kendall Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 288 pages. $75 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) The article reviews the book "Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America," by Diana Kendall. S Moller - 《...