Things to read:
- Family, Race, and Poverty in the Eighties by Maxine Zinn
- The Criminalization of Poverty by Kaaryn Gustafson
- Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
- Poverty Knowledge by Alice O’Connor
- The Undeserving Poor by Michael B. Katz
- Not a Crime to be Poor by Peter Edelman
- From Civil Rights to Human Rights by Thomas F. Jackson
- King and the Other America by Sylvie Laurent
- To the Promised Land by Michael K. Honey
- A Freedom Budget for all Americans by Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- Illiberal Reformers by Thomas C. Leonard
- Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How it Can Do Better by Rob Reich
- Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips-Fein
- Defying Dixie by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
- Hammer and Hoe by Robin D. G. Kelley
- Freedom is not Enough by Nancy MacLean
- Freedom From Fear by David M. Kennedy
- The War on Welfare by Marisa Chappell
- Getting Tough by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann
- Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky
- Dark Money by Jane Mayer
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamanhita Taylor
- A World of Homeowners by Nancy H. Kwak
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond
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Homelessness
- Invisible Nation by Richard Schweid
- Ungoverned and Out of Sight by Charley E. Willison
- Skid Road by Josephine Ensign
- Cast Out Edited by A. L. Beier & Paul Ocobock
Colonial/Early American History of Poverty
- Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia by Sumon P. Newman
- Inequality in Early America by Carla Gardina Pestana & Sharon V. Salinger
- American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor
- The Unknown American Revolution by Gary B. Nash
- The Discovery of the Asylum by David J. Rothman
- Unwelcome Americans by Ruth Wallis Herndon
- In the Shadow of the Poorhouse by Michael B. Katz
- Scraping By by Seth Rockman
Accounts/Orgs to Follow:
- @thhheohenderson
- @unionrescuemission
- @streetwatchla
- @frontlinemedics
- @coloredmindsinc
- @ucsb4cola
- @ucsbugs4cola
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- Coalition on Human Needs
- Center for Law and Social Policy
- End Child Poverty US
- National Center for Law and Economic Justice
- The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival
- Repairers of the Breach
- Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
- Institute for Policy Studies
- The Urban Institute
- National Center for Children in Poverty
- Poverty and Race Research Action Council
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Service Employees International Union
- UNITE HERE
- Citizens for Tax Justice
- Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organization
- The Social Welfare Action Alliance
- Social Security Works
- National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
- Alliance for Housing Justice
- Right to the City
- Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
- Housing NOW! California
- Tenants Together
- The National Alliance to End Homelessness
- The National Coalition for the Homeless
- The National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty
- Habitat for Humanity
- Housing is a Human Right
- Housing California
Instagram Posts:
- 5 reasons to raise minimum wage
- houseless neighbors evicted from Anisq'Oyo
- @ucsbugs4cola: How to help as an undergrad
- @ucsbugs4cola: Let's talk about food insecurity
organizations