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1. Nov. 2010 · The essays in this volume explore the lives and strategies of people who struggled with destitution, evaluate the changing forms of poor relief, and examine the political, religious, gender, and racial aspects of poverty in early North America. Down and Out in Early America features a distinguished lineup of historians.
5. März 2021 · "Annotated bibliography of the combined homeless studies and studies of the extremely poor": p. 213-222 xi, 247 p. ; 24 cm
4. Okt. 2012 · On the bottom and out on the fringe -- The new homeless and the old -- Counting the homeless and the extremely poor: location and ecomomic circumstances -- The demography of homelessness and extreme poverty -- Vulnerability to homelessness -- Why we have homelessness and extreme poverty and what to do about them
Among those profiled are a Minnesota farmer trying to hold onto her land, homeless people in an L.A. shantytown and a New York City carpenter stuck in a welfare hotel after his house burned down ...
Summaries. A recession in the mid-1980s affects Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York. The recession of the 1980ssplit the coj try into haves and have-nots.from family famers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live IIn decrepit welfare notels.
The recession of the 1980s split the country into the haves and have-nots, from family farmers to factory workers and homeless people forced to live in decrepit welfare hotels. On the verge of losing everything, courageous Americans discover the power of community organizing to fight injustice.
Lee Grant's Academy Award-winning "Down and Out in America" focuses on the people driven into poverty in the 1980s. A group of farmers in rural Minnesota, as well as homeless people in the big cities got left behind by Reagan's policies. These things continue to this day. NAFTA drove more jobs out of the country, while tax cuts shifted the tax burden onto the working class. One of the people ...
