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Contents: Introduction; American Beliefs About the Wealthy Are Changing (Michael Hiltzik); Investment Bankers Are Responsible for the American Financial Crisis (Bill Buzenberg); Investment Bankers Are Not Responsible for the American Financial Crisis (Jim Reynolds Jr.); Rich White Men—Not Minorities—Caused the American Financial Crisis (Alex Blaze); Loans to Minorities Fueled the American Financial Crisis (Michelle Malkin); Wall Street Financiers Manipulate the Stock Market to Benefit Themselves (David C. Korten); Wall Street Bailout Recipients Should Not Pay Bonuses to Employees (Ruth Conniff); It Is Necessary to Pay Bonuses to Wall Street Employees (Edward M. Liddy); The Wealthy Profit at the Expense of the Poor and Middle Classes (Leslie Davis); The Wealthy Should Pay Taxes at a Higher Rate (George Lakoff and Bruce Budner); Raising Taxes on the Wealthy Is Bad for the Economy (George F. Will); Raising State Taxes on the Wealthy Harms State Economies (Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore); The Health Care System Favors the Wealthy and Harms the Poor (Guy Adams); The Wealthy Are Monopolizing Prime Living Space (Barbara Ehrenreich); The Addictive Striving for Wealth Has Negative Social Repercussions (Peter C. Whybrow); Bibliography; Index.

(Replaces: Homelessness)

An individual is said to be homeless if they have no legal right to occupy any accommodation. While rough sleepers are the public face of homelessness, there are many more homeless people living in temporary housing or in insecure accommodation with friends and family (so-called “sofa surfers”). Some of these will be families with young children. This book looks at the homelessness problem and possible solutions, and at how young people are affected.

Chapters: 1. Homelessness Issues; 2. Youth Homelessness; 3. Homelessness Solutions

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index

(Replaces Homelessness Vol 3)

While rough sleepers may be seen as the face of homelessness, in fact homelessness can take many forms. It also includes the hidden homeless: individuals and families living in temporary accomodation, staying with friends and family or ‘sofa surfing’. This book:

• Explores the causes and effects of this ever-present social problem
• Provides information on young homeless people
• The health of rough sleepers
• And the help available to those without a home.

Level: 8.-10. kl./AVU + HG C-F etc.

Activities; Key Facts;  Glossary; Web Links

How do we help the poor? Is the answer more welfare, more education, marriage ... or capitalism? Editor: Jennifer Dorman. (128 pages)
Level: Mainly Second and Third year Gymnasium

Contents: Introduction; Welfare Reforms Have Been Successful in Helping America’s Poor (Jeff Jacoby); Welfare Reforms Have Not Been a Complete Success (Katha Pollitt); Government Programs Should Be More Tailored to America’s Poor (Margaret Simms); Government Welfare Hurts Society and Does Not Benefit the Poor (The Libertarian Party); Education Can Help People out of Poverty (Michelle Rhee); Is Education the Cure for Poverty? (Jared Bernstein); Marriage Reduces Poverty (Robert Rector); Marriage Is Not the Answer to Poverty (Polly Toynbee); Raising the Minimum Wage Will Help the Poor (Holly Sklar); Wage Regulation Will Not Help the Poor (Bill Barnes); Capitalism Is the Cure for Poverty (Robert Gelinas); Unregulated Capitalism Exploits the Poor (Barbara Ehrenreich); Africa Needs Trade More than Aid (William Easterly); Microfinance Can Alleviate Poverty (Daniel Howden); Organizations to Contact; Bibliography; Index.

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This is a beautiful, quietly provocative book which sets out to understand the human diet by exploring what culturally diverse families eat for a week.. Photojournalist Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio began their research for this book on the world's eating habits in 2000, visiting some 30 families in 24 countries. Each family was asked to purchase — at the authors' expense — a typical week's groceries, which were arrayed for a full-page family portrait. This is followed by a detailed listing of the goods, broken down by food groups and expenditures, then a more general discussion of how the food is raised and used, illustrated with a variety of photos and a family recipe. A sidebar of facts relevant to each country's eating habits (e.g. the cost of Big Macs, average cigarette use, obesity rates, life expectancy etc.) raise further questions. The photos are extraordinary and it's the questions they ask that make this volume so gripping. After considering the Darfur mother with five children living on $1½ a week in a refugee camp and then the German family of four spending $500, and a host of families in between, we may think about food in a whole new light.  We see how some people can survive healthily on far less food than others — and end up with less diabetes, heart disease, etc. We learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Cultures can suddenly move from traditional diets to the world of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more nutritionally questionable food. There are also essays from leading nutritionists, scientists, environmentalists, for instance Diabesity and Slow Foods. The photography and descriptions of the families are brilliant — because the book makes many of its points through the eye, we see, and feel, more than we might otherwise do.
Level: Gymnasiet/HTX etc. — A great resource for projects together with samfundsfag, biologi etc./Library/Depot

This book presents the latest facts, figures and arguments about World Poverty in order to enable young people to make up their own minds about this important question. Contents include: Why are People Poor? – Is Poverty a Worldwide Problem? – Does Poverty Affect Health? –  Can We End Poverty Worldwide – Reference – Glossary – Further Information.
Level: C/Introduktionsprojekter/10.kl.

How has the U.S. dealt with poverty throughout its history? Responses to it have been very varied. Poverty in America has its own turbulent history of causes, effects, and remedies, from Debtor's Prison and Social Darwinism to Food Stamps and the War on Poverty. This encyclopedia covers the history of American poverty from all angles — historical, social, cultural, political, spiritual, and literary. How has poverty been defined in America? What has been done to prevent it? How have minority groups been affected? How has the church reacted? And what, if anything, can be done to eliminate it? These issues are covered in vivid detail, from the colonial period to the global economy of the 21st century. Authors: Russell M. Lawson and Benjamin A. Lawson. Hardback. (223 + 26 pages)
Level: Library/Depot/Gymnasium/SRP/SSO

Examples of entries: Affirmative Action — American Indians and Poverty — Clinton Welfare Reform — Drugs, Alcohol, and the Poor — Equal Employment Opportunity — The Grapes of Wrath — Head Start — No Child Left Behind — Protest Movements — Welfare State.

Primary document excerpts from key periods throughout American history are also included, providing firsthand accounts from all sides of the issue.

Examples of documents: Poor Whites in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South (Emily Burke); How the Other Half Lives (Jacob Riis); Jane Adams's Autobiography (Jane Adams); Fireside Chat 1937 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt); Great Society Speech 1964 (Lyndon B. Johnson); Speech at the Republican National Convention 1984 (Ronald Reagan);  State of the Union Address 1997 (Bill Clinton).

(Replaces Poverty)

In Britain 22% of people live in households with less than 60% of the median income. Children from a disadvantaged background can be up to 2 years behind their classmates educationally by the age of 14. Globally, half the world's population live on less than $2 a day. This book looks at poverty in the UK and overseas:

Chapter One: Poverty in the UK
Poverty: the facts; Britons lose sympathy for the poor; Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007; Missing school trips make you poor, say British kids; Britain's forgotten poor; Household income; Wage gap too large, say three out of four Britons; Minimum living standards; Growing inequality; Disabled people and poverty; Paying the price of poverty; Poverty and debt; Living with hardship 24/7; Public attitudes to child poverty; Keeping mum; The cost of education; Social exclusion; 2 skint 4 school; Child poverty: true or false? Disadvantage and achievement; Mind the gap; One in five UK families can't afford heating; What are benefits?; Benefit claims and poverty; Welfare shake-up scraps incapacity benefit.

Key Facts;  Glossary Index;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index.

This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she is urged to write down her thoughts in a book. This is Precious' diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life. This is an uncompromising novel of power, vitality and wit. It covers many social issues:  the consequences of incest/rape; teenage pregnancy; living with HIV/AIDS; education. Author: Sapphire. (177 pages)
Level: (1st) and 2nd years of Gymnasium

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Based on the novel by “Sapphire” (originally called “Push”):
The tale of an abused African-American teenager's struggle to change her life in 1980s Harlem. 16-year-old Clareece 'Precious' Jones has been abused from an early age by her now absent father, and is pregnant with his second child. With a venomous mother Mary who treats her like a servant and her school life blighted by illiteracy, Precious struggles to cope with her seemingly hopeless life.

Vikas Swarup’s novel:
Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he is pulling a fast one? In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells his lawyers and us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life gave him the answers — from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church, from orphanages to brothels, from gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous. Ram's story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, tragedy and happiness of modern India. It is a story about how we know what we know, not just about trivia, but about life itself; a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil; and of what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive. (360 pages + Reading Group Guide)
Level: Gymnasium (2nd year)/Kan læses i uddrag

Reading Group Guide: Profile of Vikas Swarup; Interview with Vikas Swarup; Facts behind the Fiction; Questions for Discussion; Further reading and website information.