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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “katherine porter”
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  • Broke

    How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class

    Edited by Katherine Porter ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse—with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American middle class. Broke explores the consequences of this unprecedented growth in consumer debt and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Joe and Ham Get in a Pickle

    Adventures in Marketville

    by Jules Oliver ...
    Illustrated by Katherine Porter ...
    Things get stormy when Sloppy Joe and Hammond Cheese go fishing one day and get trapped in a hole. The people of Marketville come together to rescue them, but who will save the day? Join the adventure as you meet the fun food characters of Marketville. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Broke

    How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class

    Edited by Katherine Porter ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse—with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American middle class. Broke explores the consequences of this unprecedented growth in consumer debt and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The Working Poor

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  • Ask Me Why I Hurt

    The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them

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  • The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez

    by Jimmy Breslin ...
    The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé chronicles the life and tragic death of an undocumented worker, along with broader issues of municipal ... Read more

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  • Almost Home

    Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope

    by Kevin Ryan, Tina Kelley ...
    Inside the lives of homeless teens?moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant HouseAlmost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who ... Read more

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    My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali

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  • Making Volunteers

    Civic Life after Welfare's End

    by Nina Eliasoph ...
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  • The Wages of Relief

    Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39

    by Eric Strikwerda ...
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    A Booklist Best Book of the Year: "The definitive history of the life and death of America's most iconic housing project," Chicago's Cabrini-Green (David Simon, creator of The Wire).Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000—all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Eventually, ... Read more

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