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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
epub |eng | 2016-06-28 | Author:J. D. Vance [Vance, J. D.]

Chapter 10 During my last year of high school, I tried out for the varsity golf team. For about a year, I’d taken golf lessons from an old golf pro. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies April 29,2019 )
King and the Other America by Sylvie Laurent
epub |eng | | Author:Sylvie Laurent

The human services—medical attention, social services, neighborhood amenities of various kinds—are in scarce supply in this country, especially in localities of poverty. The traditional way of providing manpower for these ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 24,2019 )
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America by D. Watkins
epub |eng | 2019-04-22 | Author:D. Watkins [Watkins, D.]

PART 3 NEVER PATRIOTS 10 I’M SICK OF WOKE “Big bruh, I got these #StayWoke shirts for twenty dollars!” said the dude I’ve bought my incense from for over five ...
( Category: African-American Studies April 24,2019 )
Who Killed My Father by Edouard Louis
epub |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Edouard Louis

You were fascinated by all technological innovations, as if, through the novelty they embodied, you could infuse your own life with a newness to which you were not entitled. You ...
( Category: Poverty March 27,2019 )
The Feminist Financial Handbook by Brynne Conroy
epub |eng | 2018-09-18 | Author:Brynne Conroy [Conroy, Brynne]

How do name and gender marker laws affect your money? You may be wondering why legal names and gender markers on official documents are such a big deal. What bearing ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 22,2019 )
Is Inequality in America Irreversible? by Chuck Collins
epub |eng | 2018-04-13 | Author:Chuck Collins

4 Reducing the Concentration of Wealth Reversing inequality requires policies that raise the floor and level the playing field. But we cannot ignore the rigged rules that are exacerbating the ...
( Category: Social Policy October 28,2018 )
Poverty in America by Iceland John
epub |eng | | Author:Iceland, John

A fair reckoning of these two arguments—one economic and one cultural—is that both have elements of truth to them. Below I draw extensively from an excellent review of the social ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations March 22,2017 )
The Poverty Industry by Daniel L. Hatcher
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel L. Hatcher

Welfare Cost Recovery: Modern-Day Bastardy Acts The poverty industry’s pursuit of child support as a government cost recovery strategy harkens back to the time when children born out of wedlock ...
( Category: Social Services & Welfare March 19,2017 )
The Anatomy of Inequality by Per Molander
epub |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Per Molander [Molander, Per]

7 LIBERALISM AND INEQUALITY The common task liberal thinkers have set themselves is the shaping of a good constitution that will regulate the relationship between individuals—and between individuals and the ...
( Category: Economic Policy February 25,2017 )
In Their Own Hands by Jeffrey Ashe
epub |eng | 2014-12-07 | Author:Jeffrey Ashe

Voluntary Replication The technical unit and partner NGOs engaged in their own backward dance, gradually expanding the role of the animator from “trainer of groups” to “trainer of trainers.” In ...
( Category: Globalization December 8,2016 )
In Our Hands by Charles Murray
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Murray

Linking Up the Raw Materials with Human Nature Taking together the raw materials for the pursuit of happiness and the nature of the human as a social being, I propose ...
( Category: History & Theory December 5,2016 )
Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America by Jennifer Sherman
epub |eng | 2009-10-22 | Author:Jennifer Sherman [Sherman, Jennifer]

What Family Values Aren’t I was never going to be dependent on a man. I watched my mom get beat up once a week because she didn’t want to leave ...
( Category: Rural November 21,2016 )
The Upside of Inequality by Edward Conard
epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Edward Conard

Visit bit.ly/2bmbbTx for a larger version of this image. It is hard to see how growing income inequality, and not competition for a smaller number of admission slots, is the ...
( Category: Political Economy November 7,2016 )
Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl Collins & Jonathan Morduch & Stuart Rutherford & Orlanda Ruthven
epub |eng | 2009-09-20 | Author:Daryl Collins & Jonathan Morduch & Stuart Rutherford & Orlanda Ruthven

Chapter Five THE PRICE OF MONEY IN THE SPRING of 2007, the Mexican microfinance bank Banco Compartamos completed a highly successful public offering of its stock. Inspired by Grameen Bank, ...
( Category: Poverty September 21,2016 )
Street Farm by Michael Ableman
epub |eng | 2016-08-05 | Author:Michael Ableman

There is no place to sit down at our market stand. We like to stay on our feet and meet eye-to-eye with eager eaters. Our market display requires hours to ...
( Category: Urban September 6,2016 )

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