Tag: poverty
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BR347) “Poverty, By America” Book Review
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond. 2/5 rating. 189 pages. Book #9 of 2024. Finished February 19, 2024. This book talks very openly about poverty: its causes and why it is perpetuated. The topic is very interesting, but I struggled soooo much to get through this book. It just wasn’t written in a very engaging…
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BR326) “Evicted” Book Review
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. 3/5 rating. 313 pages. Book #42 of 2023. Read October 8, 2023. This book talks about many Milwaukee residents and how their lives are impacted by the fear, and actual act, of eviction. Eviction of people from the place they stay is an all-too-common…
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BR292) “Invisible Child” Book Review
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott. 4/5 rating. 525 pages. Book #8 of 2023. Read March 26, 2023. This book is beautiful, heart-wrenching and infuriating to read. It follows eight years in the life of Dasani, a young black girl, and her family with 7 siblings and 2…
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BR171) “Full Planet, Empty Plates” Book Review
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown. 3/5 rating. 138 pages. Book #7 of 2021. Read January 21, 2021. This is a thoroughly depressing (though not inaccurate) look at the issues that are coming to a head in disrupting humanity’s future. Lester talks about the huge concerns of increasing…
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BR168) “The Blue Sweater” Book Review
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz. 5/5 rating. 284 pages. Book #4 of 2021. Read January 17, 2021. This is an amazing, powerful, and illustrative read about Jacqueline’s work to help provide skills, access, and dignity to the global underprivileged. Jacqueline is truly everything…
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BR59) The End of Poverty Book Review
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. 5/5 rating. Book #134 of 2019. Read November 26, 2019. This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read! Mr. Sachs had been involved all over the world in working with governments and other groups to help turn around impoverished countries and being a champion…
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BR37) Bridges out of Poverty Book Review
Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities by Ruby Payne, Philip DeVol, and Terie Smith. 3/5 rating. Book #110 of 2019. Read September 27, 2019. This textbook reviews the reality of life in poverty for some case studies by the authors as well as discussing the best ways to assist these people to…