Poverty in the USA
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,917 ratings 
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by:
J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating — 488,779 ratings 6. 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,561 ratings
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Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
by:
Nick Reding
3.69 avg rating — 6,839 ratings 8. 
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by:
George Packer
4.13 avg rating — 12,370 ratings 
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
by:
Kathryn J. Edin
3.96 avg rating — 8,643 ratings 10. 
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by:
Isabel Wilkerson
4.48 avg rating — 113,279 ratings 12. 
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.10 avg rating — 1,846 ratings 12. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by:
Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating — 1,852 ratings 12. 
Juror Number 2: The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood
by:
Efrem Sigel
3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings 15. 
American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
by:
Jason DeParle
4.06 avg rating — 993 ratings 16. 
Hollowing Out the Middle: Why America's Small Towns Are Dying and What Can Be Done to Save Them
by:
Patrick J. Carr
3.68 avg rating — 439 ratings 17. 
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings 18. 
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
by:
Alex Kotlowitz
4.30 avg rating — 15,925 ratings 20. 
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
by:
Gregory Boyle
4.49 avg rating — 28,920 ratings 21. 
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk
by:
John Lingan
3.60 avg rating — 144 ratings 21. 
Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class
by:
Noelle Stout
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings 21. 
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha
by:
Ben L. Reitman
3.74 avg rating — 394 ratings 21. 
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
by:
Steve Corbett
4.20 avg rating — 13,903 ratings 26. 
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by:
Elizabeth Hinton
4.17 avg rating — 781 ratings 26. 
Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream
by:
John Ehrenreich
3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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Signal Through the Flames: Mitch Snyder and America's Homeless
by:
Victoria Rader
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 30. 
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
by:
Jennifer Toth
3.67 avg rating — 5,375 ratings 34. 
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 34. 
Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances 4.08 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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The Poverty of the Poverty Rate: Measure and Mismeasure of Material Deprivation in Modern America 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War
by:
Joe Bageant
3.85 avg rating — 4,167 ratings 
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Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America
by:
Jennifer Sherman
4.06 avg rating — 157 ratings 41. 
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by:
Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating — 342 ratings 41. 
Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage
by:
Isabel Sawhill
3.51 avg rating — 93 ratings 
45. 
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
by:
Kristine Barnett
4.09 avg rating — 7,768 ratings 
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Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
by:
LeAlan Jones
4.30 avg rating — 2,082 ratings 
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Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
by:
Ruby K. Payne
3.87 avg rating — 1,045 ratings 51. 
Under-Resourced Learners: 8 Strategies to Boost Student Achievement
by:
Ruby K. Payne
3.85 avg rating — 73 ratings 52. 
Working with Students: Discipline Strategies for the Classroom;
by:
Ruby K. Payne
3.74 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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The American School: From the Puritans to No Child Left Behind
by:
Joel Spring
3.76 avg rating — 97 ratings 
