Examines the issue of hunger in America and proposes new solutions to the problem.

Describes changes that occurred in the Victorian era, including immigration and the widening rift between rich and poor.

Over a course of a year, this feature-length documentary follows four church members as they work to combat the street violence, unemployment and homelessness that threaten American families living in poverty.

"Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his ... book The other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor--the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity has become...

Documents the plight of the unemployed and working poor in the United States since 1980, following the lives of several families over the course of thirty years through reporting, memoir, stories, photographs, and analysis.

Presents a collection of thirty essays that deal with social services for the poor, and addresses such issues as food stamps, Medicaid, welfare reform, housing and disability, and more.

Abused by an alcoholic, unemployed father, Doug Wallace and his seven siblings barely survived childhood--fleeing in the night from landlords, scrambling for food, and burning down the only home they ever owned to collect insurance money. In this raw testimony of a heart-breaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his family for generations....

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