Ordinary Poverty : A Little Food and Cold Storage

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At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: DiFazio, William
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
St. John's Bread and Life (Soup kitchen)
Social policy.
Social justice.
Poverty.
Poor.
Economic policy.
Justice sociale > États-Unis.
Pauvrete > États-Unis.
Social justice > United States.
Poor > United States > Case studies.
Poverty > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
États-Unis > Politique economique.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Economic policy.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and throughout New York City. In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, DiFazio presents the results of welfare reform - from ending entitlements to diminished welfare benefits - through the eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program to guara.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9781592137862

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