A People's History of Poverty in America

In this award-winning history, "the voices of the poor give valuable insights into the experience of poverty" (Choice).

Winner of the American Political Science Association's Michael Harrington Award

In this compulsively readable social history, political scientist Stephen Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans from the big city to the rural countryside. He focuses on how the poor have created community, secured shelter, and found food and...