Poverty & Unemployment

Although the definition of what constitutes low income varies significantly from one country to the next, it is always below average and people who...

Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) provide federal funds to states, territories, and tribes for distribution to local agencies to support a wid...

Trade liberalisation reforms in Bangladesh have been accompanied by impressive economic growth and substantial reductions in poverty. Nevertheless,...

The federal government provides assistance aimed at helping people with low-incomes who may earn too little to meet their basic needs, cannot suppo...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program) plays a vital role in the social safety net in the Uni...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental nutrition-rich foods and nutrition educatio...

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant helps states fund, among other benefits and services, cash assistance for needy fami...

The mental-health conditions and services in most African countries are of great concern. There is a stark distinction of health disparities betwee...

This book consists of oral, written and observation experience in Zimbabwe where the author has stayed for six months every year to carry out field...

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine Evaristo'Stag...

Each year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes. In this groundbreaking and thought-provoking book, Gwilym David Blunt argues that th...

The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her c...

The author raises some fundamental questions about the distribution of wealth. Why is it that those who produce the wealth, the workers, receive on...

This workbook has been developed as a work tool or guide for educators attending Quaglia Trainings for developing Teacher Voice and Aspirations. Tr...

Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals and have so many people living in poverty? Why have opportunitie...

The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated o...

Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a cha...