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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
284 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 unforgettable true stories. Arnade's raw, deeply reported...
24) How far to the promised land: one Black family's story of hope and survival in the American south
Author
Publisher
Convergent Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 210 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty, anti-Black racism, and an absent father to earn a job as a university professor and a life in the middle class. But that narrative was called into question one night, when McCaulley answered the phone and learned that his father—whose absence defined his upbringing—died in a car...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Picador edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to...
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