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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)