Poverty - Non-Fiction

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Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial
Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial 3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Can't you hear me talking to you?
Can't you hear me talking to you? 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South 4.44 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children
Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Reckoning with Homelessness
Reckoning with Homelessness 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Workers
Workers 4.72 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America 3.55 avg rating — 632 ratings
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She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
She Was Aye Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow 4.26 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America
Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America 4.05 avg rating — 109 ratings
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In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers 4.06 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Invisible Nation: Homeless Families in America
Invisible Nation: Homeless Families in America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History
Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History 3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth 3.76 avg rating — 16,288 ratings
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My Way Home: Growing Up Homeless in America
My Way Home: Growing Up Homeless in America 4.59 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 705 ratings
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The Dispossessed: Homeless in America
The Dispossessed: Homeless in America 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America
Gimme Shelter: A Social History of Homelessness in Contemporary America 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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No Fixed Abode: A Journey Through Homelessness from Cornwall to London
No Fixed Abode: A Journey Through Homelessness from Cornwall to London 3.73 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America 4.16 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
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Otherwise Homeless: Vehicle Living and the Culture of Homelessness
Otherwise Homeless: Vehicle Living and the Culture of Homelessness 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating — 9,789 ratings
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Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise
Hobo Jungle: A Homeless Community in Paradise 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation 3.77 avg rating — 1,670 ratings
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At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness 3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future
Aftershock(Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future 4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Better Times Than This: Youth Homelessness in Britain
Better Times Than This: Youth Homelessness in Britain
by: Tom Hall
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Homelessness and Allocations
Homelessness and Allocations really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools 4.26 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
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No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless
No Fixed Abode: Life and Death Among the UK's Forgotten Homeless 4.42 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues 4.10 avg rating — 2,882 ratings
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Mind on Fire
Mind on Fire 4.18 avg rating — 530 ratings
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Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Inequalities in Zimbabwe really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League 4.03 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality 4.25 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field
Driven: From Homeless to Hero, My Journeys On and Off Lambeau Field 4.11 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World 4.12 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey
Breakfast at Sally's: One Homeless Man's Inspirational Journey 4.06 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age 3.91 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America
Strays: A Lost Cat, a Homeless Man, and Their Journey Across America 4.03 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea 3.74 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist 3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto 3.99 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net
Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net 3.54 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto
Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home
Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home 4.25 avg rating — 377 ratings
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How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy 4.10 avg rating — 614 ratings
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God's Calling: How a Cheap Cell Phone and a Homeless Teen Transformed My Life and My Faith
God's Calling: How a Cheap Cell Phone and a Homeless Teen Transformed My Life and My Faith 3.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
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How the Other Half Lives (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
How the Other Half Lives (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.73 avg rating — 3,046 ratings
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The Concrete Killing Fields
The Concrete Killing Fields 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Twenty Years at Hull-House
Twenty Years at Hull-House 3.65 avg rating — 1,328 ratings
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Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco 4.21 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,126 ratings
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Homeless in Hawaii
Homeless in Hawaii 4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
by: Joe Klein
4.34 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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Homeless, In My Own Words: True Stories of Homeless Mothers
Homeless, In My Own Words: True Stories of Homeless Mothers 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Uses of Haiti
The Uses of Haiti 4.24 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Four Feet Under: Thirty Untold Stories of Homelessness in London
Four Feet Under: Thirty Untold Stories of Homelessness in London 4.45 avg rating — 221 ratings
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame 4.21 avg rating — 854 ratings
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Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes
Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood with Stops Along the Way at Murder, Madness, Mayhem, Movie Stars, Cults, Slums, Sociopaths, and War Crimes 4.64 avg rating — 1,987 ratings
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The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South
The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington
Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington 4.17 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts
The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts 4.06 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name
Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name 3.93 avg rating — 336 ratings
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement 3.97 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin 4.45 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement 4.07 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Full Hearts and Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London
Full Hearts and Empty Bellies: A 1920s Childhood from the Forest of Dean to the Streets of London 3.92 avg rating — 351 ratings
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail 4.56 avg rating — 2,092 ratings
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America 4.11 avg rating — 691 ratings
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Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century (Culture, Labor, History, 6)
Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century (Culture, Labor, History, 6) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose 4.61 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
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No Option But North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border
No Option But North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border 4.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 4.46 avg rating — 350,851 ratings
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Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration 4.10 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story 4.28 avg rating — 10,238 ratings
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America 4.65 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both 4.25 avg rating — 17,613 ratings
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The Man Who Quit Money
The Man Who Quit Money 3.74 avg rating — 3,250 ratings
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Split: A Counterculture Childhood
Split: A Counterculture Childhood 3.61 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The Liars' Club
The Liars' Club
by: Mary Karr
3.94 avg rating — 71,041 ratings
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All Over But the Shoutin'
All Over But the Shoutin' 4.13 avg rating — 29,149 ratings
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Miles from Nowhere
Miles from Nowhere
by: Nami Mun
3.61 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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Backroads Boss Lady: Happiness Ain't a Side Hustle--Straight Talk on Creating the Life You Deserve
Backroads Boss Lady: Happiness Ain't a Side Hustle--Straight Talk on Creating the Life You Deserve 4.08 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough 4.29 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty 4.32 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating — 23,741 ratings
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Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time
Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time 4.49 avg rating — 331 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America 3.96 avg rating — 8,642 ratings
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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha
Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha 3.74 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, And The Promise
Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, And The Promise 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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