Poverty & Unemployment

A lack of socially determined needs, such as nourishment, education, and healthcare, can become deprivation indicators that are used to measure pov...

Given the present-day threats to American democracy, Teachers College Press is publishing this federal report with new introductions by U.S. Senato...

Given the present-day threats to American democracy, Teachers College Press is publishing this federal report with new introductions by U.S. Senato...

Julia nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe...

'An exploration of why so many Americans are struggling financially . . . A down-to-earth overview of the causes and effects of poverty and possibl...

Hard Times in an American Workhouse, 1853 1920, is the first comprehensive examination of a workhouse in the United States, offering a critical his...

Empire of Poverty examines how changing concepts of poverty in the long-sixteenth century helped shape the deep structures of states and empires an...

If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent todays UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Seven Children is about injustice...

Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in the...

Evidence for the negative effects of segregation and concentrated poverty in America's cities now exists in abundance; poor and underrepresented co...

This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in East Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its r...

Poverty in Canada is on the rise, particularly among certain groups. While in developing countries poverty may affect much of the population, in a ...

This book will explore case studies of child poverty in a range of countries, including those that are highly industrialized; those that are consid...

Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past dec...

Much ink has been spilled on poverty measurements and trends, at the expense of attempts to understand root causes. Assembling multi-disciplinary a...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Panic buying at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic generated enduring media images of em...

Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of No Poverty focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number one (SDG#1): to end poverty in all its...