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Poverty Awareness Month

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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

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

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