Reading List
A Beginner’s Guide to the World Economy by Randy Charles Epping (Vintage)
All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O’Rourke (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich (Holt)
Blue Collar Jesus by Darren Cushman Wood (Seven Locks Press)
Class Matters by the New York Times (Times Books)
Ending Poverty as We Know It by William Quigley (Temple University Press)
The Color of Wealth by New York Press (Times Books)
Ending Poverty by Robin Mapthorn Marris (Thames & Hudson, Inc,)
Ending Poverty: A 20/20 Vision byNancy E. Maeker & Peter Rogness (Augsburg Fortress)
Experiencing Poverty by D. Stanley Eitzen and Kelly Eitzen Smith (Wadsworth Publishing)
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Harper Perennial)
First World, Third World by William Ryrie (Palgrave Macmillan Press)
Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays (Oxford University Press)
God the Economist by M. Douglas Meeks (Augsburg Fortress)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Penguin)
Greatest of Evils by James Wright & Joel Devine (Aldine Transaction)
Homeless Mothers by Deborah R. Connelly (University of Minnesota Press)
It Take A Nation by Rebecca M. Blank (Princeton University Press)
Lazarus at the Gate by Rev. Michael Russell, Rev. David Billings and Charlotte Williams, MSW (Augsburg Fortress)
Living on the Edge by Mark Robert Rank (Oxford University Press)
My Name is Child of God…Not “Those People” by Julia K. Dinsmore (Augsburg Fortress)
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (Holt Press)
One Nation, Underprivileged by Mark Robert Rank (Oxford University Press)
Savage Inequities by Jonathan Kozol (Harper Perennial)
Stories from Below the Poverty Line by George D. Beukema (Hearld Press)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Understanding Poverty by Sheldon H. Danzinger (Harvard University Press)
When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson (Vintage Press)
The Working Poor by David K. Shipler (Vintage)
Children’s Literature
The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez (Houghton Mifflin)
Escaping to America by Rosalyn Schanzer (Harper Collins)
Film & Video
A Class Divided (Documentary), an insightful and powerful exploration of discrimination among children.
Sicko (Documentary), Michael Moore’s eye opening look at how the healthcare system has failed America and what the damages of such failure brings.
Super Size Me (Documentary), Morgan Spurlock’s amazing odyssey of eating McDonald’s for a month and the results.
30 Days-Season1 (Television Series), Morgan Spurlock spends a month experiencing social ills by working as a minimum wage worker, an incarcerated prisoner and a Catholic immersing himself in Muslim culture and many other paths.
Wal-Mart–The High Cost of Low Price (Documentary), a first hand look of how much far Wal-Mart goes to offer low prices and the high cost for those who work for the company.
Wise as Serpents (Documentary), a video and study guide focusing on children in the billion dollar sex trafficking trade that is bound to leave viewers speechless.