Consider reading one of the following books as part of your congregation's book clubor recommend these resources to your congregants before or after hosting a speaker on poverty:
Book Recommendations:
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
No Shame in My Game, Katherine Newman
Betrayal of Work, Beth Schulman
The Working Poor: Invisible in America, David Shipler
Additional Reading:
Jews, Money and Social Responsibility, Lawrence Bush and Jeffrey Dekro (Shefa Fund)
Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity, Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel
The Unknown City, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis
Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America, David Cay Johnston
Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan, Paul Krugman
Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips
Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich – and Cheat Everybody Else, David Cay Johnston
Beyond the Shelter Wall: homeless families speaking out, Ralph da Costa Nunez
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