Poverty & Unemployment

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides grants to states for a wide range of benefits, services, and activities tha...

At a time when poor Americans are struggling to keep their jobs, homes and basic necessities for their families, it is crucial for the federal gove...

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United S...

Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch examine the emergence of urban ghettos of the socially dependent--an unforeseen solution to the problem of developi...

A history of US involvement in late twentieth-century campaigns against global poverty and how they came to focus on women A War on Global Poverty ...

There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lambs DAILY TELEGRAPH ...

Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than 13 million children live in fo...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In our society, a wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience chronic poverty and ma...

 I tore through the pages. A book Ill read over and over again CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS, author of Queenie __________________________________________...

Along with inequality and unemployment, poverty is seen as South Africa's biggest challenge with over half of South Africans living below the natio...

A family torn apart. A daughter determined to stay together.When the parish guardians send Lydia, daughter of convict James Knowles, to be an appre...