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Poverty Awareness Month
Other Resources
"The Nest" Food Pantry
Finish Line Grant
Wake County Energy Assistance Programs
United Way of the Greater Triangle
Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle
Films and Videos
Black history a retrospective
by
Cine-O-Matic, Inc.
Call Number: E 185 .B53 2010 Discs 1-3
ISBN: B002WBYDLC
Publication Date: 2009
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
by
PBS:
Publication Date: 2014
The Gilded Age
by
PBS
Call Number: E 661 .A64 2018
ISBN: 9781531703950
Publication Date: 2018
Poverty in America
by
Lathika International Film & Entertainment
Publication Date: 2011
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
by
PBS
Publication Date: 2020
Events and Websites
Poverty in North Carolina
An online poverty simulation created by Urban Ministries of Durham
NC Poverty Research Fund
UNC Law School program that researches the challenges of economic hardship in North Carolina.
NC State Center for Health Statistics: Poverty
A report provided by the North Carolina Justice Center.
Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day
Link to a free PDF cookbook with recipes designed to fit the budget of people living on SNAP.
Articles of Interest
Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution
Are the poverty histories of neighbourhoods associated with psychosocial well-being among a representative sample of California mothers? An observational study
Giving to poverty relief charities: the impact of beliefs and misperceptions toward income redistribution in a real donation experiment
Child Welfare Systems and LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: Gender Segregation, Instability, and Intersectionality
Toxic Waste and Race in Twenty-First Century America: Neighborhood Poverty and Racial Composition in the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities
Spatial and Temporal Trends in Multidimensional Poverty in the United States over the Last Decade
Books
$2.00 a Day : living on almost nothing in America
by
Kathryn J. Edin; H. Luke Shaefer
Call Number: HC 110 .P6 E343 2016
ISBN: 9780544811959
Publication Date: 2016-09-13
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
by
Matthew Desmond
Call Number: HD 7287.96 .U6 D47 2016
ISBN: 9780553447439
Publication Date: 2016-03-01
The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina
by
Gene R. Nichol
Call Number: HC 107 .N8 N57 2018
ISBN: 9781469646527
Publication Date: 2018-12-10
Heartland: a memoir of working hard and being broke in the richest country on Earth
by
Sarah Smarsh
Call Number: HD 8073 .S637 A3 2018
ISBN: 9781501133091
Publication Date: 2018-09-18
Toxic Inequality : how America's wealth gap destroys mobility, deepens the racial divide, & threatens our future
by
Thomas M. Shapiro
Call Number: HC 110 .P6 S43 2017
ISBN: 9780465046935
Publication Date: 2017-03-14
eBooks
The Divided City : Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America
by
Alan Mallach
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781610917810
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
Not a Crime to Be Poor
by
Peter Edelman
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781620975480
Publication Date: 2019-07-02
Poor Economics : A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by
Abhijit Banerjee; Esther Duflo
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781586487980
Publication Date: 2011-04-26
Rural Poverty in the United States
by
Ann Tickamyer; Jennifer Warlick (Editor); Jennifer Sherman (Editor); Ann R. Tickamyer (Editor)
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9780231172233
Publication Date: 2017-08-22
Twenty Years of Life : Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequity
by
Suzanne Bohan
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 9781610918015
Publication Date: 2018-04-19