"Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. The decline of white working-class Americans, a demographic that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm -- but never before written about as searingly from the inside. Former marine and Yale Law School graduate J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social,...

"A generous selection of Frazier's most sophisticated and uproarious feature stories"--

"Donna writes, "I heard we are not our stories; yet, I became a part of mine ? some anyway ? without intention. History changed me more than once. Those past events hold hands with my soul." Since her days of briefly living in a township under South Africa?s apartheid regime to the inhumanity of being homeless in America, readers will be tied closely to the author's vivid story-telling, beginning with the Prologue?s dream sequence. Donna's homeless...

"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't...

"Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor-the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity...

Financial difficulties resulting from an extravagant lifestyle and excessive gambling led Fyodor Dostoevsky to pen his first novel "Poor Folk". First published in 1846, "Poor Folk" is the story of impoverished cousins Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin. The two live in run-down apartments across the street from each other in St. Petersburg. Through a series of letters to each other we learn of the suffering, humiliation, and isolation that results...

El texto tiene el propósito de ayudar a los lectores a entender y a reflexionar sobre la situación social en América Latina, a partir del análisis de los trabajos realizados por investigadores y estudiosos de las diferentes áreas en las que se enmarca la gerencia social, estos aportes constituyen fuentes documentales muy valiosas para abordar la problemática de la pobreza en el contexto latinoamericano.

In search of stimulating stories, George Thomas Clark interviewed prostitutes in Madrid, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua and on many boulevards in the United States, and talked to detectives and rode the rough roads of social workers who deal with human trafficking, which is contemporary slavery, and toured the tattered, handmade shelters of the homeless and also interviewed them on the streets and in shelters, and conversed with the poor in the...

American homelessness is a humanitarian disaster. And we just let it happen. This book is a how-to guide for the people of America to end homelessness TODAY. Bureaucrats, homeless service providers, churches, and politicians are incapable and unwilling to do the work they should be doing. WE THE PEOPLE MUST DO THE WORK. This is the manual on becoming a homeless activist and ending homelessness in the richest, most Christian country in the world.

L'itinérance est une question fort complexe. Sa compréhension, en tant que problème social, repose sur une exploration des différentes facettes qui la composent : le quotidien de la vie à la rue, les mécanismes d'exclusion, les formes de violence rencontrées, la dégradation de l'état de santé, la réduction des capacités d'agir, les différentes ruptures vécues, le développement des réponses sociales, etc. L'itinérance en questions...