LibGuides: Social Justice: Poverty

e-Books

Florida Dept of Children and Families
Office on Homelessness
Institute for Research on Poverty
University of Wisconsin, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
National Center for Children in Poverty
Statistics, graphs. Information by state. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
National Coalition for the Homeless
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
The Poverty Law Library houses a collection of over 500,000 legal documents, the information source for frontline legal aid attorneys.
U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau's annual report showed nearly 1-in-6 people in poverty...
War on Poverty -- Florida
"...committed to alleviating poverty in minority communities."

Obesity Among Poor Americans : Is Public Assistance the Problem? by Smith, Patricia K.
Publication Date: Vanderbilt Univ Press, 2009
"The association between adult weight gain and ethnicity is largely accounted for by chronic poverty."

Rethinking poverty: Income, assets, and the Catholic Social Justice Tradition by James P. Bailey
Call Number: BX1795.S62 B35 2010
ISBN: 0268022232
Publication Date: 2010
"Bailey's most significant contribution is his compelling case for the Church to establish, or re-establish, asset and property ownership at the heart of its mission to reduce poverty, enhance human dignity, and achiece a more just society." [Ray Boshara, New America Foundation]