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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DiFazio, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9781592137862

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