Resources

Poverty Alleviation and Related Resources

For further reading:

Beegle, Donna Marie, Debbie Ellis and Rima Akkary. See Poverty – Be the Difference!: Discovering the Missing Pieces for Helping People Move out of Poverty. Tigard, OR: Communication Across Barriers, 2007. Print


Bradley, Michael. Being A Safe Place for the Dangerous Kind, Anaheim, CA: Good Son Books, 2015. Print


Corbett, Steve, and Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor – and Yourself. Chicago, IL: Moody, 2012. Print


Ensign, Josephine. Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling through the Safety Net. Berkeley, CA: She Writes,
2016. Print


Fikkert, Brian, and Kelly M. Kapic, Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream, Chicago, Il:
Moddy Publishers. Print


Hall, Ron, and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent. Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Who Bound Them Together. New York, NY: Thomas Nelson, 2006. Print


Land, Stephanie. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and Mother’s Will to Survive. New York, NY: Hachette Books, 2019. Print


Lupton, Robert D. Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results. New York, NY: HarperOne 2015. Print


Lupton, Robert D. Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help (and How to Reverse it.) New York, NY: HarperOne, 2011. Print


Payne, Ruby K, Philip E DeVol, and Terie Dreussi. Smith. Bridges out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities. Highlands, TX: Aha! Process, 2001. Print


Yankowski, Mike. Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America. Multnomah Publishers, 2005. Prin

Resources used during Poverty 101:

“Why Poverty Is Like a Disease”, by Christian H. Cooper, Consciousness, April 20, 2017, ISSUE 047, HTTP://NAUTIL.US/ISSUE/47/CONSCIOUSNESS/WHY-POVERTY-IS-LIKE-A-DISEASE.

Songs:
Take Me To The King By Tamela Mann
Take Me To The Alley By Gregory Porter
All My Favorite People By Over The Rhine

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