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December 25th, 2007, 08:46 - Professor Rank, author of Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America (1994), meticulously builds the case that, despite America's great wealth, society as a whole has abnegated its responsibility to ease the burdens of the nation's poor even while creating an economic system that structurally ensures that a great portion of its citizens will live in poverty. The author debunks the traditional belief that the poor are largely responsible for their own condition. He equates the economy to a game of musical chairs, with a limited amount of jobs substituting for chairs.

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December 25th, 2007, 08:45 - In a remarkably concise, readable, and accessible format, John Iceland provides a comprehensive picture of poverty in America, He shows how poverty is measured and understood and how it has changed over time, as well as how public policies have grappled with poverty as a political issue and an economic reality. This edition has been updated and includes a new preface.

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December 25th, 2007, 08:44 - Professor David S. Landes takes a historic approach to the analysis of the distribution of wealth in this landmark study of world economics. Landes argues that the key to today's disparity between the rich and poor nations of the world stems directly from the industrial revolution, in which some countries made the leap to industrialization and became fabulously rich, while other countries failed to adapt and remained poor.

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December 25th, 2007, 08:42 - This slim volume presents a radical analysis of poverty that turns conventional understandings of the subject upside-down

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December 25th, 2007, 08:41 - Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press

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December 25th, 2007, 08:40 - The Working Poor examines the "forgotten America" where "millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight between poverty and well-being

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December 25th, 2007, 08:39 - In the course of more than a decade of working with the unemployed and working poor in Cincinnati, we ve found Ruby Payne s Bridges Out of Poverty the most useful book for helping our staff, Board of Trustees and possible funders understand the issues we confront on a daily basis with our members. It s required reading for those associated with Cincinnati Works. Dr. Payne s understanding of the mindset of the poor is unparalleled, and she does a marvelous job communicating why middle class solutions to poverty don t work. --Liane Phillips, co-founder of Cincinnati Works, the nation s leading back-to-work program and co-author of WHY DON'T THEY JUST GET A JOB: Business Solutions to Poverty From Cincinnati Works

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December 25th, 2007, 08:37 - Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book.

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December 25th, 2007, 08:36 - This book was provided to the faculty of Hathaway school in South Oxnard as a part of the Program Improvement process required of our site. The goal was to look at the issue of poverty.