Poverty & Unemployment

Unemployment can be an isolating experience. In this much-needed book, Michael John Carley reassures readers who are unemployed and have Autism Spe...

The Sunday Times bestseller by Jay Blades, the beloved star of hit BBC One show The Repair Shop. Making It is an inspirational memoir about beating...

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition,...

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an unconditional war on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americ...

Young people in this country are facing a chasm of doubt and instability. Mental health problems are widespread, university fees are rising, job op...

In the 1970s Alice Leahy left nursing to work and live in a Dublin homeless shelter. This is the story of her life and life choices, from an empowe...

With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral ...

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mothe...

Poverty violates fundamental human values through its impact on individuals and human environments. Poverty also goes against the core values of de...

Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women's lives can be difficult as they go about sea...