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Book cover for Ronald J. Angel: Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

Ronald J. Angel
Paperback - $58.95

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do n ...

Book cover for Kathleen R. Arnold: Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity

Homelessness, Citizenship, and Identity : The Uncanniness of Late Modernity

Kathleen R. Arnold
Hardcover - $76.95

In the aftermath of September 11, donations to the poor and homeless have declined while ordinances against begging and sleeping in public have increased. The increased security of public spaces has been matched by a quest for increased security and ...

Book cover for Joseph A. Bailey: Rising Above Poverty

Rising Above Poverty

Joseph A. Bailey
Paperback - $36.95

STRUGGLING BLACK AMERICANS are those most heavily burdened by the effects of slavery, by on-going racism, and by ineffectiveness and inefficiency in figuring out answers to their daily and long term problems. This book focuses on laying out 30 mental ...

Book cover for Nadejda Ballard: Globalization and Poverty

Globalization and Poverty

Nadejda Ballard
Library Binding - $62.95

Analyze the impact globalization has had on poverty, rural development, regional examples, role of multinationals, human capital development, and sustainability.

Book cover for Sandra L. Barnes: The Cost of Being Poor

The Cost of Being Poor : A Comparative Study of Life in Poor Urban Neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana

Sandra L. Barnes
Paperback - $48.95



Book cover for Michael Barnholden: Street Stories

Street Stories : 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver

Michael Barnholden
Paperback - $34.95



Book cover for Zygmunt Bauman: Wasted Lives

Wasted Lives : Modernity and Its Outcasts

Zygmunt Bauman
Paperback - $34.95

This book examines the production of "human waste" - or more precisely, wasted lives, the "superfluous" population of migrants, refugees, and other outcasts - as an inevitable outcome of modernization.

Book cover for A. L. Beier: The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England

The Problem of the Poor in Tudor and Early Stuart England

A. L. Beier
Paperback - $44.95

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Book cover for Jill Duerr Berrick: Faces of Poverty

Faces of Poverty

Jill Duerr Berrick
Paperback - $78.95

An eye-opening look at poverty in America
-- Based on numerous hours observing five women and their families on welfare
-- Demolishes many of the myths and misconceptions about so-called welfare mothers
-- Provides the information people nee ...

Book cover for A. S. Bhalla: Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World, Second Edition

Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World, Second Edition

A. S. Bhalla
Hardcover - $174.95

This volume looks at the three dimensions of social exclusion: economic, social and political. Exclusion is analyzed as a new approach to such issues as the "new" poverty, precariousness, long-term unemployment, social polarization and lack of citize ...

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