Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

2001 ★ 3.6

White trash

Nancy Isenberg

2016 ★ 3.8

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

Dorothy Allison

1995

$2.00 a day

Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

2015

Days of destruction, days of revolt

Chris Hedges

2012 ★ 3.7

The other America

Harrington, Michael

1962

Hand to Mouth

Linda Tirado

2014 ★ 4.3

The economics of poverty and discrimination

Joan M. Saslow, Bradley R. Schiller, Allen Ascher

1976

The redneck manifesto

Jim Goad

1997

Hollow City

Rebecca Solnit

2001

Rachel and her children

Jonathan Kozol

1988

Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children

Todd R. Risley, Betty Hart

1995

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco

2013

Behind The Eight Ball

Tanya Telfair Sharpe

2005

Myth of the welfare queen

David Zucchino

1997

When Work Disappears

Wilson, William J.

1997

Promises I Can Keep

Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas

2006

The Black Panther Party

The Huey P. Newton Foundation

2008

The twilight of common dreams

Todd Gitlin

1995

The Dream and the Nightmare

Myron Magnet

1993

Imprisoning communities

Todd R. Clear

2007

Don't Call Us Out of Name

Lisa Dodson

1998

Rainbow pie

Joe Bageant

2010

Poverty Industry

Daniel L. Hatcher

2016

Red dirt

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

1997

A working stiff's manifesto

Iain Levison

2002

New poverty studies

Judith Goode, Jeff Maskovsky

2001

Mapping decline

Colin Gordon

2008

One Nation, Underprivileged

Mark R. Rank, Mark Robert Rank

2004

Off the Books

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

2006