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Unlearning Discrimination in the Early Years -- by Babette Brown (Author) (Book)
"This is the first book in early years education that deals with all areas of discrimination, and provides practical guidance on key issues of language, culture, gender and disability. It challenges...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Paths to Homelessness: Extreme Poverty and the Urban Housing Crisis -- by Kathryn Talley, D. Stanley Eitzen, Doug Timmer (Authors) (Book)
"From 1976 to 1998, the Gautreaux Assisted Housing Program moved over 7,000 low-income black families from Chicago's inner city to middle-class white suburbs--the largest and longest-running...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor -- by William Wilson (Author) (Book)
"In his long-awaited new book, our foremost authority on race and poverty challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Monkey Island -- by Paula Fox (Author) (Book - Child)
"Eleven-year-old Clay Garrity is on his own. His father lost his job and left the family. Now Clay's mother is gone from their welfare hotel. Clay is homeless and out on the streets of New York. In...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work: One State's Successful Experiment -- by David Hage (Author) (Book)
"In the late 1980s, Governor Rudy Perpich gathered a group of citizen experts to redesign Minnesota's welfare system, and a burst of innovation resulted in the groundbreaking and successful pilot...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Poverty and the Underclass: Changing Perceptions of the Poor in America -- by William Kelso (Author) (Book)
": In this timely work, William Kelso analyzes how the persistence of poverty has reversed liberal and conservative positions during the last thirty years. While liberals in the 1960s hoped to...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Harry Sue -- by Sue Stauffacher (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
Product Description "Harry Sue Clotkin is tough. Her mom's in the slammer and she wants to get there, too, as fast as possible, so they can be together. But it's not so easy to become a juvenile...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became The World's Most Notorious Slum -- by Tyler Anbinder (Author) (Book)
"In the 19th century, the Five Points district in lower Manhattan was New York City's most noxious slum, teeming with wretchedly poor Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants and African...
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Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture: Socio-Economic and Familial Origins of the Rise of Violence against the Person -- by Oliver James (Author) (Book)
Using their own official statistics, author Oliver James demonstrates that Home Office claims that violence has not been growing are false. Public debates about violence tend to centre on single-cause...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)
Patient Children: Conditions of Poverty and the Use of Hospital-Based Ambulatory Care -- by Beth Weitzman (Author) (Book)
"Examines the use of hospital services by children of the poor in New York City, drawing on out-patient hospital records and community-level information to assess the degree to which use of emergency...
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Age groups: Adulthood (22+)