Poverty & Unemployment

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

In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called 'Pauperland.' More than two hundred years later, poverty and social de...

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to ...

More than half of the world''s population now lives in urban areas, but a billion of these people reside in neighbourhoods characterized by entrenc...

In this stirring memoir, discover the timely story of a couple who takes in a homeless man and the life-altering effect the experience has on all t...

Helping the poor is a question central to American life. Partially driven by America's Judeo-Christian heritage, Americans believe we possess enoug...

I was murdered once. True stories (and wild speculations) about the lives and deaths of homeless people, uncovered by the UKs leading homelessness...

Now a Washington Post bestseller. Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbil...

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that t...

The Guardian top 5 books on the housing crisis in the UK ''The housing crisis is just getting started,' warns Timperley in this important book.'  ...

What if the idealized image of American societya land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic successis completely wrong? Few topi...

'The stories of those who lived in the shadow of the workhouse' During the nineteenth century the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the poo...

In 1972, Peter Singer published Famine, Affluence and Morality, which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Thr...

In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor's National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number ...

Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, eithe...