January is National Poverty in America Awareness Month (USA)

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating β€” 109,960 ratings
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty 4.14 avg rating β€” 546 ratings
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Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice 4.26 avg rating β€” 618 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating β€” 49,879 ratings
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality 4.03 avg rating β€” 915 ratings
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Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State
Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail 4.12 avg rating β€” 513 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City 4.70 avg rating β€” 18,461 ratings
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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City 4.70 avg rating β€” 18,461 ratings
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Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South 4.86 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
11.
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,846 ratings
12.
Poverty and Hunger (Children In Our World Series)
Poverty and Hunger (Children In Our World Series) 4.02 avg rating β€” 127 ratings
12.
Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense
Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense 4.01 avg rating β€” 259 ratings
14.
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America 4.17 avg rating β€” 781 ratings
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Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Families, Law, and Society, 11)
The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Families, Law, and Society, 11) 3.96 avg rating β€” 177 ratings
16.
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972
Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1972 4.10 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
18.
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating β€” 419 ratings
18.
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads)
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Volume 2) (American Crossroads) 3.81 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
20.
A People's History of Poverty in America
A People's History of Poverty in America 3.89 avg rating β€” 129 ratings
20.
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York 3.64 avg rating β€” 2,834 ratings
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Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities
Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,045 ratings
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Making Poor Man's Guitars: Cigar Box Guitars, the Frying Pan Banjo and Other DIY Instruments (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step CBG Projects, Interviews, and Authentic Stories of American DIY Music
Making Poor Man's Guitars: Cigar Box Guitars, the Frying Pan Banjo and Other DIY Instruments (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step CBG Projects, Interviews, and Authentic Stories of American DIY Music 4.42 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
24.
See Poverty . . . Be the Difference!
See Poverty . . . Be the Difference! 4.01 avg rating β€” 94 ratings
24.
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South 4.44 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
26.
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,950 ratings
26.
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 β€” 108 ratings
28.
A Vow of Poverty (Sister Joan Mystery #8)
A Vow of Poverty (Sister Joan Mystery #8) 4.36 avg rating β€” 837 ratings
28.
Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America)
Dixie's Forgotten People, New Edition: The South's Poor Whites (Minorities in Modern America) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
30.
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,423 ratings
30.
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites
Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites 4.33 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
32.
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
by: Tim Wise
4.09 avg rating β€” 298 ratings
32.
War on Poverty
War on Poverty 3.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
34.
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
by: Lisa Goff
4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
34.
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating β€” 259,714 ratings
36.
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
The Working Poor: Invisible in America 4.04 avg rating β€” 5,703 ratings
36.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty 4.09 avg rating β€” 59,220 ratings
38.
The Poor Among Us
The Poor Among Us 3.73 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
38.
You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World
You Can't Go Wrong Doing Right: How a Child of Poverty Rose to the White House and Helped Change the World 4.21 avg rating β€” 119 ratings
40.
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,846 ratings
40.
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World 3.85 avg rating β€” 2,991 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 β€” 68 ratings
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My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South
My Brother Moochie: Regaining Dignity in the Face of Crime, Poverty, and Racism in the American South 4.20 avg rating β€” 287 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 β€” 4 ratings
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On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty (The World Around Us, 1)
On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty (The World Around Us, 1) 3.96 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems 3.94 avg rating β€” 409 ratings
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A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,651 ratings
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Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,268 ratings
48.
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America 4.04 avg rating β€” 427 ratings
50.
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 93 ratings
51.
Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide 3.75 avg rating β€” 218 ratings
52.
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,072 ratings
53.
The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights 3.60 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
54.
Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry
Rhyme's Rooms: The Architecture of Poetry 4.07 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
55.
Where I Can't Follow
Where I Can't Follow 3.51 avg rating β€” 881 ratings
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Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One
Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One 3.74 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating β€” 488,857 ratings
58.
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
The Other America: Poverty in the United States 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,184 ratings
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives 3.64 avg rating β€” 853 ratings
60.
One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All
One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All 3.72 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
61.
Nightcrawling
Nightcrawling 3.96 avg rating β€” 57,333 ratings
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The Floating Girls
The Floating Girls 3.34 avg rating β€” 6,849 ratings
63.
Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,693 ratings
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8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World 3.66 avg rating β€” 168 ratings
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Native Women Changing Their Worlds (Native Trailblazers, 9)
Native Women Changing Their Worlds (Native Trailblazers, 9) 4.45 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
66.
If It Rains
If It Rains 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,805 ratings
67.
Punching Bag
Punching Bag
by: Rex Ogle
4.49 avg rating β€” 2,004 ratings
68.
Gordo
Gordo 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,838 ratings
69.
What Beauty There Is
What Beauty There Is 3.80 avg rating β€” 5,243 ratings
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Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order 3.89 avg rating β€” 272 ratings
71.
The Book of Lost Friends
The Book of Lost Friends 4.15 avg rating β€” 116,194 ratings
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American Geography
American Geography 4.23 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
73.
Unsettled Ground
Unsettled Ground 3.77 avg rating β€” 16,493 ratings
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Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community (Orca Think, 2)
Shelter: Homelessness in Our Community (Orca Think, 2) 4.08 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
75.
A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars 4.49 avg rating β€” 867 ratings
76.
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family 4.46 avg rating β€” 36,048 ratings
77.
Somebody's Daughter
Somebody's Daughter 4.02 avg rating β€” 71,692 ratings
78.
A Thousand Voices (Tending Roses #5)
A Thousand Voices (Tending Roses #5) 4.09 avg rating β€” 4,830 ratings
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All the Water I've Seen Is Running
All the Water I've Seen Is Running 3.54 avg rating β€” 733 ratings
80.
Beautiful Country
Beautiful Country 4.17 avg rating β€” 37,470 ratings
81.
Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir
Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir 4.55 avg rating β€” 3,183 ratings
82.
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,714 ratings
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The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code 3.83 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
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The Age of Witches
The Age of Witches 3.92 avg rating β€” 8,317 ratings
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Economic Dignity
Economic Dignity 3.98 avg rating β€” 147 ratings
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic 4.12 avg rating β€” 387 ratings
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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened
The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,309 ratings
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Opioid, Indiana
Opioid, Indiana 3.34 avg rating β€” 2,374 ratings
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,582 ratings
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Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future
Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future 3.88 avg rating β€” 286 ratings
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The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die 4.21 avg rating β€” 3,983 ratings
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Long Shot
Long Shot 4.16 avg rating β€” 293 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating β€” 26,732 ratings
94.
Writings on the Wall
Writings on the Wall 4.14 avg rating β€” 561 ratings
95.
Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know
Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know 3.84 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America
Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America 3.91 avg rating β€” 64 ratings
97.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together 4.62 avg rating β€” 20,498 ratings
98.
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World 3.96 avg rating β€” 5,797 ratings
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The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,020 ratings
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,677 ratings
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