Poverty suggestions

[corneggs]

Hi. I'm new here and am excited to join the community. Does anybody have any suggestions for good fiction or non-fiction (please indicate which one) on poverty and/or homelessness in developed countries?

Thank you so much!

 

[novella]

Hi there. This is a great book on the current state of play for low-wage workers in the US:

Nickeled and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America

 

[mehastings]

One of my major areas of study in school was urban American history, so I've got tons of them.

Tally's Corner - Liebow
How the Other Half Lives - Riis
Death at an Early Age - Kozol
Amazing Grace - Kozol

All are about different aspects of poverty in American cities and most of them tie in ethnic/racial prejudice and the part it plays here. If I looked through my stacks I could probably come up with more, but these are the first I would suggest.