"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...

Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. Here, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. This group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized...

A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty. [The author] sets the stage by drawing a ... conceptual map of the world economy and the...

"Mark Robert Rank shows that the fundamental causes of poverty are to be found in our economic structure and political policy failures, rather than individual shortcomings or attitudes. He establishes for the first time that a significant percentage of Americans will experience poverty during their adult lifetimes and ... demonstrates that poverty is an issue of vital national concern"--Jacket.

Ce qui se passe à l'extérieur de chez nous peut être étrange et déroutant. Les questions que se pose un enfant qui voit une personne vivant dans la rue peuvent être le point de départ d'une importante conversation sur la pauvreté. Dans ce livre, la pédopsychologue Jillian Roberts et leresponsable de la division de l'éducation de Google Jaime Casap guident une discussion sur ce sujet délicat avec franchise et simplicité. La série Et si...

"Anthology of diverse viewpoints exploring stagnating wages in the United States and how an increase to the federal minimum wage would affect workers and the economy"--

In Haiti, Rose-Aimée's parents send their daughter to work in the city, where her life is very unhappy. After she makes friends with a girl named Lisa, she decides to travel to Miami.