Resources
Resources on Poverty Mitigation
Below are key resources that highlight the face of poverty in our community and what advocates and organizations alike are doing to mitigate poverty and provide sustainable solutions.
Reading List
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| A Framework for Understanding Poverty | Ruby K. Payne |
| Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship | Father Greg Boyle |
| Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own | Eddie S. Glaude Jr. |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Capital in the 21st Century | Thomas Piketty, London: Cambridge, 2014 |
| Confronting Suburban Poverty in America | Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube |
| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
| Hillbilly Elegy | J.D. Vance |
| Hunger for Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation, and the Common Good | Sister Somone Campbell |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson |
| Men without Work: America's Invisible Crisis | Nicholas Eberstadt |
| Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think | George Lakoff, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016 |
| My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption | Ian Manuel |
| Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality | Patrick Sharkey, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013 |
| Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion | Father Greg Boyle |
| The Color of Compromise | Jemar Tisby |
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein, New York: LiveRight Publishing, 2017 |
| The Coming Jobs War | Jim Clifton |
| The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World | Melinda Gates |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
| The Other Wes Moore | Wes Moore |
| Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope | Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn |
| Toxic Charity | Robert Lupton |
| War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America | Elizabeth Hinton |
| When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor... and Yourself | Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert |
| White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson, USA: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2016 |
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