Poverty & Unemployment

How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their...

The focus of this study is the poor law system, and the people who used it. Introduced in 1838, the Irish poor law established a nationwide system ...

By 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families. Children in the UK are becoming short...

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

This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a ...

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scruti...

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scruti...

Differences in performance between students living in poverty and more advantaged students are reflective of an opportunity gap, as opposed to a ga...

Millions of descendants of the former colonized and enslaved peoples around the world are now classified as poor readers, bad writers, and slow lea...

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. Th...

Millions of descendants of the former colonized and enslaved peoples around the world are now classified as poor readers, bad writers, and slow lea...

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions to debt, despair, and onto the streets. T...

Listening intently to what the poor have to say is Laurie Greens way into a new study of Jesus most famous Beatitude Blessed are the Poor. Combini...

*WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable ... If you want a good understanding...

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning societys hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change...

Our divided politics, unable to solve the challenges we face concerning societys hierarchies of injustice, poverty, endless war, and climate change...

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...

At a time of growing wealth and income inequality in the United States during recent decades, Class and Inequality in the United States examines th...

Austerity has proven deadly. Over the last decade, the damage caused by austerity measures in the UK has had a long-lasting and profound effect on ...

Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at pl...