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Poverty, AIDS and Hunger : Breaking the Poverty Trap in Malawi
Anne C. Conroy
Hardcover - $149.95
The numbers of Africans living in absolute poverty continues to increase. Through bolder and more innovative approaches, the poor can be helped, at very reasonable cost, to break out of poverty. We use the experience from one of the poorest countries ...
Our Day to End Poverty : 24 Ways You Can Make a Difference
Shannon Daley-Harris
Paperback - $24.95
Imagine ending poverty at home and around the globe in our own lifetimes. Imagine your actions combining with others; actions to make poverty history. With originality and imagination, this book invites us to look at our very ordinary days, from waki ...
Life at the Bottom : The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Theodore Dalrymple
Paperback - $27.95
This is a searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England. Dr. Dalrymple's key insight is that long-term poverty is caused not ...
Understanding Poverty
Sheldon H. Danziger
Paperback - $52.95
In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the United States remains high relative to the levels of the early 1970s and relative to those in many industrialized countries today. Understanding Poverty brings the ...
Reducing Poverty in America
Michael R. Darby
Paperback - $129.95
How can we make a difference in the lives of those trapped in the culture of poverty? What methods should policymakers use to empower and assist the poor? Americans want to reduce poverty as much and as fast as possible, but will spending more tax do ...
If You Came This Way : A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass
Peter Davis
Hardcover - $53.95
When the acclaimed author of "Where Is Nicaragua?" went in search of America's growing underclass— the persistent poor— he discovered a frighteningly large segment of the population for whom our cherished notions of equal opportunity and ...
Memoir on Pauperism : Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?
Alexis de Tocqueville
Paperback - $23.95
Giving Alms No Charity
Daniel Defoe
Paperback - $26.95
The consequence of this was, as in all tyrannies and persecutions it is, the people fled and scatter'd themselves in their neighbours countries, trade languish'd, manufactures went abroad, and never return'd, confusion reign'd and poverty succeeded.
Misery and Its Causes
Edward T. Devine
Hardcover - $68.95
Explores Misery In Health, Employment, And Friendship And Its Causes. A Study Of Poverty And Other Social Ills And How Charity And Charitable Societies Can Help With These Modern Miseries.