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What does it mean to be poor? For decades, the dominant narrative in the UK and US has been that it is caused by personal flaws or 'bad life decisions'. People are 'lazy', 'dependent' and 'irresponsible'. This 'story' has become embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about and treated. Drawing on a two-year story-telling project and her own experience of childhood poverty,...
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"Getting in trouble is what Hector does best. He knows that not much is expected of him. In fact, he gets some of his most brilliant prank ideas while sitting in detention. But how far is too far? When Hector plays a prank on a homeless man and is seen and shamed by a schoolmate, he reaches a turning point. He wants to be viewed differently and decides to do something that will change his fate for the better. But will anyone take him seriously?"--Dust...
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Based on his twenty-five years of experience, Paul Polak explodes what he calls the "Three Great Poverty Eradication Myths": that we can donate people out of poverty; that national economic growth will end poverty; and that big business, operating as it does now, will end poverty.
Polak shows that programs based on these ideas have utterly failed-in fact, in sub-Saharan Africa, poverty rates have actually gone up. These failed top-down efforts contrast...
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Cuando apenas era una estudiante universitaria, recuerdo cómo mi corazón se oprimió al observar la carita de dolor de un niño de la calle, una carita marcada por el abandono, la soledad y una gran tristeza; su única compañía era una botella de pegante y me pregunté: ¿por qué el gobierno no los protege?, ¡no hay derecho a tanta miseria!, ¡ellos tienen el derecho a vivir dignamente!, pero el abandono estatal, la guerra interna que desplaza...
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A gripping and powerful story about survival on the streets. This is a true account, in descriptive and sometimes graphic detail, of what it was like to survive homelessness. It is the story of one person's struggle to come to terms with what can only be described as a real-life disaster. More than just a good read, A Homeless Panic provides a profound and moving account of what it's like to be homeless in America. Our society doesn't look favorably...
46) Ser Pobre
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Cada párrafo de Ser pobre es una perla obtenida en un lugar inaccesible.
Con un pie en las universidades de élite del Reino Unido y otro en el restaurante de techo de chapa de Cândida, en el altiplano angoleño. Solo así puede uno aproximarse a un fenómeno complejo y multidimensional como es la pobreza.
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Summary of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance | Includes Analysis Preview: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance is an account of the struggles of white working-class Americans in the post-industrial United States. The author offers a message of hope by telling the story of how he went from growing up poor in Ohio's Rust Belt to graduating from Yale Law School. James David (JD) Vance's family is of Scots-Irish descent....
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The newest book by Joel Berg-an internationally recognized leader and media spokesman in the fields of hunger, poverty, food systems, and U.S. politics, and the director of Hunger Free America-America We Need to Talk: A Self-Help Book for the Nation is both a parody of relationship and self-help books and a serious analysis of the nation's political and economic dysfunction. Explaining that the most serious-and most broken-relationship is the one...
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Pourquoi certains jeunes vivant dans la rue parviennent-ils à s'en sortir alors que, pour d'autres, la rue constitue une voie sans issue ? Comment faire, après s'être approprié une identité en marge, pour se reconnaître et être reconnu comme parent, employé, étudiant, citoyen comme les autres ? Quel rle jouent les manifestations de (non-)reconnaissance de la famille de ces jeunes, de leurs amis de rue, de leurs voisins, d'un sugar daddy,...
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It's a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up. Now he lives hand-to-mouth. His pockets are empty long before his next social assistance cheque arrives. In early 2010 over two hundred civic and faith leaders fanned out into thirty Ontario communities. Their goal? To explore how the least fortunate people in...
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Women's rough sleeping is a major issue across Europe and is especially problematic within the current economic climate. Based on a European Union DAPHNE III-funded project, this important book tells the story of the women and organisations that took part in the study. Revealing a number of truths about women's rough sleeping across Europe, the authors argue that there is little or no specific provision for this vulnerable and hard to reach group....
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This is a first-time study of formerly homeless people showing how people become and then leave the state of homelessness. Using a sample of people from across the nation and of different sexes, races, and ethnicities, Wagner suggests the key variables in ending homelessness for individuals as well as
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53) Street Images
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Those on the periphery of society are not necessarily culturally or spiritualy poor. "Street persons" can harbor a rich life-story and genuine philosophic concerns. This work seeks to make public this hidden cultural wealth. We invited persons with hardship to create fiction or, in recounting an experience, to offer an image of hope.. From Clem who writes as he recovers from frost bite in the hospital the humerous "My Little Spot," to Theodora who...
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101 Reasons for a Citizen's Income offers a short, accessible introduction to the debate on a Citizen's Income, showing how a universal, unconditional income for every citizen would solve problems facing the UK's benefits system, tackle poverty, and improve social cohesion and economic efficiency. For anyone new to the subject, or who wants to introduce friends, colleagues or relatives to the idea, 101 Reasons for a Citizen's Income is the book to...
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This book explores the efforts of collaborative groups in six different Canadian cities as they work to reduce poverty, as part of Vibrant Communities, a cross-Canada effort of many cities to reduce poverty in Canada by creating partnerships that make use of the most important assets -- people, organizations, businesses, and governments. The six groups in this group are: a project that seeks to get long-term unemployed job seekers trained and transported...
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Poverty, it seems, is a constant in today's news, usually the result of famine, exclusion or conflict. In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed from their accounts.
The books asks many biting...
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Homelessness is not new to Vancouver. There have been homeless people in Vancouver since it was founded in 1886. As in other major North American cities, until the late '70s and early '80s homelessness in Vancouver followed the economic logic of boom and bust capitalism. However, since the run-up to the World Exposition of 1986, that logic has no longer been the determining factor influencing the growing number of homeless in the city. The "new poverty"...
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Does 'real' poverty still exist in Britain? How do people differentiate between the supposed 'deserving' and 'undeserving' poor? Is there a culture of worklessness passed down generation to generation? Bringing together historical and contemporary material, Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the myths sheds new light on how poverty is understood in contemporary Britain. The book debunks many popular myths and misconceptions about poverty and its prevalence,...
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The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the UK have meant that poverty and income management continue to be of great importance for intellectual, public and policy discourse. Written by leading authors in the field, the central interest of this innovative book is the role and significance of family in a context of poverty and low-income. Based on a micro-level study carried out in 2011 and 2012 with 51 families in Northern Ireland, it...
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There are one hundred and ten interviews with the homeless people who live in and around Auburn, California. Who is really out there, on the streets? How did they get there? How many of them are on drugs, or abuse alcohol? How many are just victims of a bad economy? Have their lives changed, during these difficult economic times? Where do they look for help? Where do they look for hope? Do they still have dreams for a better life? If you read this...
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