Experiencing Poverty: Voices from the Bottom - Softcover

Poverty continues to be a social problem of epidemic proportions in America.

Experiencing Poverty, Second Edition, reveals the realities of the lives of the impoverished.

D. Stanley Eitzen and Kelly Eitzen Smith have brought together a timely collection of readings that examine those who have lived in poverty, those who continue to live in poverty, and successful efforts by the poor to change social arrangements that impact them negatively.

Topics covered include:

• How people become poor
• Why the poor stay poor
• How the poor cope with acquiring the daily necessities of food, shelter, water, clothing, and medical care
• How the poor are treated by individuals and organizations in the community
• What consequences arise from the welfare-to-work federal legislation
• How human agency can create changes from the bottom up

A new section in this edition, “Poverty and Vulnerability,” focuses on how people living in poverty are extremely vulnerable in such situations as war, natural disasters, job loss, family disruption, and health problems.