Summary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POVBayard, Louis
Summary: With her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister-- and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father-- fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she convince the town that Hiram is her long...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION BAYTorres, Jennifer
Summary: After her father's landscaping business fails and the family loses their house, sixth-grader Griselda Zaragoza follows her sister's example and begins selling Alma cosmetics while hiding her changed circumstances from friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC TORMcKissack, Pat
Summary: Despite their own poverty since Daddy died, Mama tells nine-year-old James Otis they need to help Sarah, whose family lost everything in a fire.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E MCKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCKCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCKSummary: Explains how global poverty began with military conquest, slavery, and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals, and forced labor. Today's financial crisis is a direct consequence of these unchallenged policies that have lasted centuries. Features expert insights from Nobel Prize winners, acclaimed authors, university professors, government ministers, and the leaders of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ENDDesmond, Matthew
Summary: "[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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.2 DESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult, Call number: 339.4 DESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 339.4 DESEhrenreich, Barbara.
Summary: Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job, any job, can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2011
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 305.569 EHRRoberts, Jillian
Summary: Using illustrations, full-color photographs and straightforward text, this nonfiction picture book introduces the topics of homelessness and poverty to young readers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362 ROBBudge, Kathleen M.
Summary: Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen Budge and William Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the debilitating effects of poverty on their students. They share the powerful voices of teachers - many of whom grew up in poverty - to amplify the five classroom practices that permeate the culture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ASCD 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 339.2 INCSummary: Elderly Nana Chinegowe is left to care for her three orphaned grandchildren. Other than occasional casual work as a day laborer, she has no mean to support them and they often go without food. This film tells the story of Malawi's ultra poor, and investigates the Millennium Development Goals of reducing maternal mortality, hunger, and poverty.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CUREdin, Kathryn J.
Summary: "A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harrisand her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 339.3 EDICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 EDIGreer, Peter
Contents: Introduction: Glimpses of poverty -- How bad is poverty anyway? -- Flower petals in the face -- Making a feast for Jesus -- Searching for solutions that work -- A hand up, not a handout -- How $100 can change the world -- Unlocking entrepreneurship -- A brass ring for the poor -- Microfinance goes mainstream -- Exploring variations in microfinance 2.0 -- It can't be that good, can it? -- Using...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 GREWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARSummary: Utopia is an epic production by the Emmy and Bafta winning film-maker and journalist John Pilger. Utopia is a vast region in northern Australia and home to the oldest human presence on earth. 'This film is a journey into that secret country,' says John Pilger in Utopia. 'It will describe not only the uniqueness of the first Australians, but their trail of tears and betrayal and resistance -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UTOCushman, Karen.
Summary: In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSLand, Stephanie
Summary: Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Noble, Trinka Hakes
Summary: During the 1918 influenza outbreak, nine-year-old Rettie seeks ways to make Thanksgiving special for her siblings and ailing mother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC NOBSummary: Rich Hill, Missouri (population 1,393) could be any of the countless small towns that blanket America's heartland. But to teenagers Andrew, Harley and Appachey, it's home. They are like millions of other boys coming of age the world over, but face unfortunate circumstances an imprisoned mother, isolation, instability, and parental unemployment. Adolescence can be a day-to-day struggle just to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Passion River] 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RIC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RIC
Summary: The Rose family's dreams of escaping their town are suddenly thwarted when the town's potential buyer succumbs to a diabetic coma. It's now clear that their stay in this simple setting will be much longer than they ever imagined. Faced with this horrific truth, the Roses must do the only thing they can: change the town from within. Contains thirteen episodes and bonus features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCHFullerton, Alma.
Summary: Early morning in Uganda see a small boy struggle with jerry cans filled with the day's supply of water. At the villiage square he spies an aid truck fill with something amazing, what can a such a small barefoot boy to earn the treasure inside that truck?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FULArnade, Chris
Summary: "Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.50973Bliss, Bryan.
Summary: Abigail's parents, believing the end of the world is near, sell their house, give the money to an end-of-times preacher, and drive from North Carolina to San Francisco where they remain homeless and destitute, as Abigail fights to keep her parents, her twin brother, and herself united against all odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015