The following KPL resources represent a wide variety of perspectives, experiences, and proposals to foster community conversations about a complex issue.

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Poverty, the Poor, Communities, the Challenges, and Collaborative Solutions

• Tightrope: Americans reaching for hope (2020)
  Nicholas D. Kristof, 1959- , Sheryl WuDunn, 1959- 
• Manifesto for a moral revolution: practices to build a better world (2020)
  Jacqueline Novogratz 
• Broke: hardship and resilience in a city of broken promises (2019) 
  Jodie Adams Kirshner 
• The fruit of all my grief: lives in the shadows of the American dream (2019) 
  J. Malcolm Garcia, 1957-  
• Dignity: seeking respect in back row America (2019) 
  Chris Arnade
• We're still here: pain and politics in the heart of America (2019) 
  Jennifer M. Silva
• Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive (2019)
  Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich 
• I was hungry: cultivating common ground to end an American crisis (2019)
  Jeremy K. Everett, 1975-  
• A few thousand dollars: sparking prosperity for everyone (2018) 
  Robert (Robert E.) Friedman
• This land: America, lost and found (2018)
  Dan Barry, 1958- 
• "We are all fast-food workers now": the global uprising against poverty wages (2018)
  Annelise Orleck  
• Heartland: a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth (2018)
  Sarah Smarsh
• Squeezed: why our families can't afford America (2018)
  Alissa Quart
• Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor (2018) 
  Virginia Eubanks, 1972- 
• Poverty: responding like Jesus (2018) 
  Kenneth R Himes, 1950- 
• Nomadland: surviving America in the twenty-first century (2017) 
  Jessica Bruder
• Not a crime to be poor: the criminalization of poverty in America (2017) 
  Peter B. Edelman  
• Toxic inequality: how America's wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, & threatens our future (2017) 
  Thomas M. Shapiro
• The financial diaries: how American families cope in a world of uncertainty (2017) 
  Jonathan Morduch, Rachel Schneider 
• Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city (2016) 
  Matthew Desmond
• Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis (2016) 
  J. D. Vance
• Equal is unfair : America's misguided fight against income inequality (2016)
  Don Watkins, 1982- , Yaron Brook  
• Born on third base: a one percenter makes the case for tackling inequality, bringing wealth home, and committing to the common good (2016)
  Chuck Collins, 1959- , Morris Pearl  
• $2.00 a day: living on almost nothing in America (2015) 
  Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer 
• The divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap (2014) 
  Matt Taibbi 
• Hand to mouth: living in bootstrap America (2014) 
  Linda Tirado, Barbara Ehrenreich
• How the poor can save capitalism: rebuilding the path to the middle class (2014) 
  John Hope Bryan
• The American way of poverty: how the other half still lives (2013) 
  Sasha Abramsky
• The business solution to poverty: designing products and services for three billion new customers (2013)
  Paul Polak, Mal Warwick 
• Fire in the ashes: twenty-five years among the poorest children in America (2012) 
  Jonathan Kozol 
• So rich, so poor: why it's so hard to end poverty in America (2012) 
  Peter B. Edelman
• Broke, USA: from pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.: how the working poor became big business (2008) 
  Gary Rivlin  
• Nickel and dimed: on (not) getting by in America (2001) 
  Barbara Ehrenreich

Youth

• Invisible Americans: the tragic cost of child poverty (2020) 
  Jeff Madrick, 1947-
• Abandoned: America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection (2020) 
  Anne Kim (Journalist)  
• Those who wander: America's lost street kids (2019) 
  V. (Vivian) Ho

Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

• Troop 6000: how a group of homeless Girl Scouts inspired the world (2020)
  Nikita Stewart  
• This is all I got: a new mother's search for home (2020) 
  Lauren Sandler  
• The unexpected guest: how a homeless man from the streets of L.A. redefined our home (2020) 
  Michael Konik  
• You ought to do a story about me: addiction, an unlikely friendship, and the endless quest for redemption (2020) 
  Ted Jackson  
• A gift of hope: helping the homeless (2012) 
  Danielle Steel 
• The girl's guide to homelessness: a memoir  (2011) 
  Brianna Karp, 1985- 
• Breaking night: a memoir of forgiveness, survival, and my journey from homeless to Harvard (2010) 
  Liz Murray, 1980-
• Breakfast at Sally's: one homeless man's inspirational journey (2008) 
  Richard LeMieux  

Documentary DVDs

• East Lake Meadows : a public housing story (2020) 
  Ken Burns, 1953- et al. 
• Lost in America (2020) 
  Rotimi Rainwater
• A place at the table (2013) 
  Kristi Jacobson et al. 
• Tent City, U.S.A. (2012)