LibGuide: Poverty in America

If you're looking for resources to help you understand poverty in America, you've come to the right place! Contact the Library for database login information or answers to your research questions.

Research Starters

• “Poverty.” Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2018

• "Wealth Gap," Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2018

eBooks

• Why America Lost the War on Poverty--And How to Win It, 2007

• Importing Poverty? Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America, 2009

• Poverty in America: A Handbook, 2013

• Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, 2013

• The American Way of Poverty : How the Other Half Still Lives, 2013

• Inequality in America: Race, Poverty, and Fulfilling Democracy's Promise, 2014

• Poverty: A New Perspective, 2015
  

Books

• Poverty: Opposing Viewpoints, 1999

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, 2001

• The Working Poor: Invisible in America, 2005

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, 2016

• Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2019

Films

• Capitalism: A Love Story, 2010

• Poor Kids, 2013

Online Videos

Databases

Read sources about poverty and income inequality from a variety of perspectives on Opposing Viewpoints and  SIRS Issues Researcher. Looking for more specific information? Customize your search with the Economics and Theory database.

To help narrow down your results during your search, use Boolean operators to connect search terms and quotation marks to search for multi-word phrases, like these examples:

poverty and "United States of America" "income inequality" equity and poverty "childhood poverty" and education