Who Owns Poverty? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Owns Poverty? write by Martín Burt. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Who Owns Poverty? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is the story about a question we never thought to ask - Who owns poverty? - and about an unexpected answer that challenges everything that we thought we knew about what poverty is, and what we can do about it. This book is for the governments, development organizations and changemakers who are frustrated with simply trying to reduce poverty, or alleviating its effects--and our lack of progress in doing either. This is a book that celebrates the power of audacious questions and considers what happens when we put poverty back into the hands of the real experts: families living in poverty."--Page 4 of cover
Who Owns Poverty?
Who Owns Poverty? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Owns Poverty? write by Martin Burt. This book was released on 2019. Who Owns Poverty? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The War on Poverty
The War on Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War on Poverty write by Annelise Orleck. This book was released on 2011-11-01. The War on Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty has long been portrayed as the most potent symbol of all that is wrong with big government. Conservatives deride the War on Poverty for corruption and the creation of "poverty pimps," and even liberals carefully distance themselves from it. Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. The War on Poverty also transformed American politics from the grass roots up, mobilizing poor people across the nation. Blacks in crumbling cities, rural whites in Appalachia, Cherokees in Oklahoma, Puerto Ricans in the Bronx, migrant Mexican farmworkers, and Chinese immigrants from New York to California built social programs based on Johnson's vision of a greater, more just society. Contributors to this volume chronicle these vibrant and largely unknown histories while not shying away from the flaws and failings of the movement--including inadequate funding, co-optation by local political elites, and blindness to the reality that mothers and their children made up most of the poor. In the twenty-first century, when one in seven Americans receives food stamps and community health centers are the largest primary care system in the nation, the War on Poverty is as relevant as ever. This book helps us to understand the turbulent era out of which it emerged and why it remains so controversial to this day.
The American Way of Poverty
The American Way of Poverty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Way of Poverty write by Sasha Abramsky. This book was released on 2013-09-10. The American Way of Poverty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abramsky shows how poverty - a massive political scandal - is dramatically changing in the wake of the Great Recession.
A People's History of Poverty in America
A People's History of Poverty in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's History of Poverty in America write by Stephen Pimpare. This book was released on 2011-06-07. A People's History of Poverty in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In A People's History of Poverty in America, political scientist Stephen Pimpare brings the human lives and real-life stories of those who struggle with poverty in America to the foreground, vividly describing life as poor and welfare-reliant Americans experience it, from the big city to the rural countryside. Prodigiously researched, A People's History of Poverty in America unearths rich, poignant, and often surprising testimonies—both heart-wrenching and humorous—that range from the early days of the United States to the present day. Pimpare shows us how the poor have found food, secured shelter, and created community, and, most important, he illuminates their battles for dignity and respect in the face of the judgment, control, and disdain that are all too often the price they must pay for charity and government aid. In telling these hidden stories, Pimpare argues eloquently for a fundamental rethinking of poverty, one that includes both a more nuanced understanding of the history of the American welfare state, and a meaningful—and truly accurate—new definition of the poverty line. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as an “illuminating history of America's poor” and a “useful counter against those who blame the poor for their bad luck,” A People's History of Poverty in America reminds us that poverty is not in itself a moral failure, but our failure to understand it may well be.
