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1.Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada s Quest to Change Harlem and AmericaWhatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
from Houghton Mifflin
Price: $17.16

Customer Review:
Anyone with any interest in education or fighting poverty should read this fantastic book.
Tough gives great background on thinking on poverty and education, and its evolution, over the past 50 or so years. HCZ and Geoffrey Canada challenge some traditional liberal views (mine included) about... more info

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2.A Framework for Understanding PovertyA Framework for Understanding Poverty
from aha Process, Inc.
Price: $21.56

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This book is a quick, easy read and should be a requirement for all! You will gain an appreciation for all economic/social classes and learn more about yourself. As a teacher, this book brought clarity to situations in the past and will guide my behavior in the future. I believe that every lawmaker... more info

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3.The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our TimeThe End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $11.56

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I read. A lot. That said, only half this book is worth the time and energy it took me to read it. The middle half, to be specific. The first few chapters are dedicated to Sachs detailing to us that, no, he's not an idiot writing about something he's had no experience with and that, yes, he can help... more info

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4.Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
from Holt Paperbacks
Price: $11.20

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This book tells the reality for too many Americans, who don't qualify for the Bush/McCain tax cuts. Sad, and scary, reading.

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5.Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in AmericaNickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
from Metropolitan Books

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I agree with most people who read this book in saying that Barbara only gave us a glimpse into the world of minimum wage and trying to *live* on it. Skimmed the surface, so to speak. Even though, I enjoyed the book and thought it was well put together.
Was there a lot left out that should have... more info

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6.Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of CapitalismCreating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
from PublicAffairs
Price: $10.17

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Professor Yunus' book pales in comparison to his Banker to the Poor - this current book is light on action and heavy on rhetoric. It does tell a story about how he was able to create a social enterprise - using his connections as a Nobel Prize winner and book author.
It does not give any type... more info

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7.Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World PovertyBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty
from Blackstone Audio Inc.
Price: $13.57

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This books shows us that the lack of access to credit for the poorest of the poor is possibly as bad as lack of food. Without some access to credit they have absolutely no chance to ever get out of the revolving situation that will absorb then and their children. It's a vicious cycle of poverty that... more info

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8.The White Man s Burden: Why the West s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little GoodThe White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
from Penguin (Non-Classics)
Price: $10.88

Customer Review:
Here, William Easterly lifts the veil of fog and proceeds to make a big dent in our collective ignorance about the "ways of global poverty" and in the process tells us what "not to do" in trying to surmount it. His trenchant critique gives a whole new meaning to the biblical philosophy: Give a man a... more info

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9.Development as FreedomDevelopment as Freedom
from Knopf

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Development as Freedom dives into the concept that both the result and mechanism of development is the growth of actual freedoms that people enjoy. It is no good to be rich slave.
The book dives headfirst into various development theories that both support and oppose this idea and Amartya Sen... more info

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10.Angela s AshesAngela's Ashes
from HarperCollins Audio

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The basic problem with it is that while McCourt's life of poverty in Ireland is interesting and there are a couple of dozen well written passages and anecdotes, the work is atrociously edited. All the more galling for the lack of good editing is that this was McCourt's first book- he needed the... more info

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