LibGuides: ENGL 120: Pruitt-Westover: Poverty

Books on Poverty

Making Ends Meet by Kathryn Edin; Laura Lein
Call Number: On order
ISBN: 9780871542342
Publication Date: 1997-04-17
Working and Poor by Sheldon H. Danziger; Robert F. Schoeni; Rebecca M. Blank (Editor)
Call Number: 331.7 WORKING
ISBN: 9780871540645
Publication Date: 2008-10-16
Changing Poverty, Changing Policies by Maria Cancian; Sheldon Danziger
Call Number: 362.5 CHANGING
ISBN: 9780871543103
Publication Date: 2009-08-27
Not a Crime to Be Poor by Peter Edelman
Call Number: 62.5 EDELMAN
ISBN: 9781620971635
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne
Call Number: 305.569 PAYNE
ISBN: 9781929229147
Publication Date: 2001-01-01

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UC Davis Center for Poverty Research
From the website: "The UC Davis Center for Poverty Research mission is to facilitate non-partisan academic research on poverty in the U.S., disseminate this research, and train the next generation of poverty scholars."
Institute for Research on Poverty
Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "IRP is a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to producing and disseminating rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs to combat poverty, inequality, and their effects in the United States."
Podcasts on Poverty
From the Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality.