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 | "We Live in the Shadow": Inner-City Kids Tell Their Stories through Photographs ISBN: 9781439907917 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Inner cities -- United States; City children -- United States -- Social conditions; Urban poor -- United States -- Social conditions; Equality -- United States; Photography -- Social aspects -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Festering Sweetness: Poems of American People ISBN: 9780822978916 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poor -- United States -- Poetry; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor ISBN: 9781610448550 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fines (Penalties) -- Social aspects -- United States; Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- Economic aspects -- United States; Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States; BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; L; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism ISBN: 9781400825516 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Social problems -- United States; Inner cities -- Government policy -- United States; Urban poor -- Government policy -- United States; Occupational mobility -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Abandoned Families: Social Isolation in the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 9781610448628 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Families -- United States; Poor families -- United States; Marginality Social -- United States; Family services -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917 ISBN: 9780253006387 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poor -- Services for -- United States -- History; Charities -- United States -- History; Nature and nurture -- United States -- History; Poverty -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty ISBN: 9780813574165 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research. Negro family the case for national action; Poor African Americans -- Social conditions; African American families -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Public opinion; Pover; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Boosting Paychecks: The Politics of Supporting America's Working Poor ISBN: 9780815704584 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working poor -- Government policy -- United States; Working poor -- Taxation -- United States; Minimum wage -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto ISBN: 9781587290411 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Rural conditions; Rural poor -- United States; Farmers -- United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980–; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative ISBN: 9780520945890 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lange Dorothea; Women photographers -- United States -- Biography; Taylor Paul Schuster 1895 – 1984; Social scientists -- United States -- Biography; Rural poor -- United States -- History; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Children in Jeopardy: Can We Break the Cycle of Poverty? ISBN: 9780300162240 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Child welfare -- United States; Socially handicapped children -- Services for -- United States; Poor children -- Services for -- United States; Teenage pregnancy -- United States -- Prevention; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor ISBN: 9780812204605 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Societies etc -- History -- 20th century; Social advocacy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Poor -- United States -- History -- 20th centu; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Colors of Poverty, The: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist ISBN: 9781610447249 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poor -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies; Poverty -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies; Minorities -- United States -- Economic conditions; Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coming of Age in the Other America ISBN: 9781610448581 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban youth -- United States -- Social conditions; Poor youth -- United States -- Social conditions; Youth development -- United States; Education Urban -- United States; Inner cities -- United States; Social mobility -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Confronting Suburban Poverty in America ISBN: 9780815723912 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poor -- Government policy -- United States; Poor -- United States; Suburbs -- United States -- Economic conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Containment and Condemnation: Law and the Oppression of the Urban Poor ISBN: 9781609175887 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States; Legal assistance to the poor -- United States; Urban poor -- Civil rights -- United States; Urban poor -- United States; Social legislation -- United States; Poverty -- Social aspects -- United State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Conversations with Dorothy Allison ISBN: 9781617032875 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Allison Dorothy -- Interviews; Authors American -- 20th century -- Interviews; Feminists -- United States -- Interviews; Lesbians -- United States -- Interviews; Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Interviews; Lesbianism; Feminism; Working poor -- South; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coping With Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community ISBN: 9780472023585 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Afro-Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975–; Urban poor -- United States; Afro-Americans -- Economic conditions; Afro-Americans -- Employment; Urban policy -- United States; Afro-American families -- Social conditions; Inner cities -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States ISBN: 9780199932948 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Social Work; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods ISBN: 9780520942455 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban poor -- United States -- Case studies; Inner cities -- United States -- Case studies; Urban poor -- Social networks -- New York (State) -- New York; Urban poor -- Social networks -- California -- Los Angeles; Social change -- United States -- New Yo; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market ISBN: 9780816685639 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Unskilled labor -- United States; Labor -- United States; Working poor -- United States; Wages -- United States; Labor market -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada ISBN: 9781501711251 Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Social Sciences; Sociology; History of Sociology; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
| Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada ISBN: 9781501711251 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poverty -- Government policy -- United States; Poverty -- Government policy -- Canada; Working poor -- United States; Working poor -- Canada; Social policy -- United States; Social policy -- Canada; Public welfare -- United States; Public welfare -- Canad; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Disease and Discrimination: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America ISBN: 9780813055947 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Florida Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Chronic diseases -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History; Poor -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History; Discrimination against people with disabilities -- United States -- History; Communicable diseases -- United States -- History; ; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Does the Law Morally Bind the Poor?: Or What Good's the Constitution When You Can't Buy a Loaf of Bread? ISBN: 9780814770528 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Criminal liability -- United States; Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States; Poor -- Civil rights -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City ISBN: 9780520955134 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Unmarried fathers -- United States; Single fathers -- United States; Fatherhood -- United States; Poor children -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ending Welfare as We Know It ISBN: 9780815798354 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public welfare -- United States; Poor -- Government policy -- United States; Welfare recipients -- Government policy -- United States; Family policy -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 1993–; United States -- Politics and government -- 199; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Fair Start for Children: Lessons Learned from Seven Demonstration Projects ISBN: 9780300236231 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Infant health services -- United States -- Case studies; Maternal and infant welfare -- United States -- Case studies; Maternal health services -- United States -- Case studies; Children of minorities -- Medical care -- United States -- Case studies; Poor; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Federal Policymaking and the Poor: National Goals, Local Choices, and Distributional Outcomes ISBN: 9781400863587 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Federal aid to community development -- United States; Federal aid to community development -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area; Block grants -- United States; Block grants -- Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area; Intergovernmental fiscal relations; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Health Care Off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America ISBN: 9780520973602 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Medical care -- United States -- Case studies; Urban poor -- Medical care -- United States -- Case studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | How May I Help You?: An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage ISBN: 9780520966475 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Foreign workers -- United States; Working poor -- United States; Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions; United States -- Economic conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History ISBN: 9781400821709 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- History; Urban poor -- United States -- History; Urban schools -- United States -- History; Social history; Social policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | In the Barrios: Latinos and the Underclass Debate ISBN: 9781610448376 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions; Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions; Poor -- United States; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981–; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Inequality in America: Facts, Trends, and International Perspectives ISBN: 9780815724223 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Income distribution -- United States; Poor -- United States; Wealth -- United States; Equality -- United States; United States -- Economic conditions; United States -- Social conditions; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America ISBN: 9780815716761 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Urban policy -- United States; Metropolitan areas -- United States; Metropolitan government -- United States; Land use -- United States -- Planning; Urban poor -- Housing -- United States; Revenue sharing -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Invisible City: Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism ISBN: 9780292794580 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Low-income housing -- United States -- Case studies; Urban poor -- United States -- Case studies; People with disabilities -- Housing -- United States -- Case studies; Older people -- Housing -- United States -- Case studies; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World ISBN: 9780520959224 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working poor -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Tax credits -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families ISBN: 9781592133574 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working class -- United States; Poor families -- United States; City dwellers -- United States; Social mobility -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 1993–; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | King and the Other America: The Poor People's Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality ISBN: 9780520963436 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Equality -- United States; Poor -- United States; Poor People''s Campaign; King Martin Luther Jr. 1929–1968 -- Influence; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Political Thought ISBN: 9781469646664 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Equality -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Poverty -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- United Stat; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty and Welfare Reform ISBN: 9780815796138 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Poor -- United States; Poverty -- Religious aspects; Poverty -- Biblical teaching; Public welfare -- United States; Church and social problems -- United States; Social justice -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Making College Work: Pathways to Success for Disadvantaged Students ISBN: 9780815730224 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: People with social disabilities -- Education (Higher) -- United States; Poor -- Education (Higher) -- United States; Students with social Disabilities -- United States; Education Higher -- United States -- Costs; Universities and colleges -- United State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Making the Work-Based Safety Net Work Better: Forward-Looking Policies to Help Low-Income Families ISBN: 9781610446440 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working poor -- Government policy -- United States; Poor families -- Government policy -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Misconception: Social Class and Infertility in America ISBN: 9780813564814 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Infertility Female -- United States; Fertility Human -- United States; Poor women -- United States; Social classes -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Mothering by Degrees: Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education ISBN: 9780813588452 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Single mothers -- Education (Higher) -- United States; Poor women -- Education (Higher) -- United States; Education Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States; College student parents -- United States; Mother and child -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Moving Working Families Forward: Third Way Policies That Can Work ISBN: 9780814769904 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working class families -- Government policy -- United States; Working poor -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Economic policy; United States -- Social policy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | NBER-Conference Report : Problems of Disadvantaged Youth : An Economic Perspective ISBN: 9780226309477 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / University of Chicago Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Poor youth : United States : Social conditions.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
 | Neighborhood Organization and Interest-Group Processes ISBN: 9781400868742 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Community power; Community organization; Poor -- United States; Political sociology; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans ISBN: 9780815722342 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Financial services industry -- United States; Banks and banking -- Social aspects -- United States; Poor -- Finance Personal -- United States; Low-income consumers -- Finance Personal -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Old Assumptions, New Realities: Ensuring Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century ISBN: 9781610447218 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Russell Sage Foundation Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Working poor -- United States; Social security -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 21st century; ■ Detailed Information |