Breaking the Poverty Cycle

Despite minimal unemployment in the state, the prevalence of families having to get by with even full-time minimum wage earnings allows poverty to persist, especially for the youngest Texans ("New Report Indicates One In Five Texas Children Lives in Poverty," Texas Standard, November 15, 2018). In the recently released 2018 State of Texas Children report, the Center for Public Policy Priorities, one of the recommendations is to increase the minimum wage and access to paid sick leave.

Review selected hard copy/online library books related to poverty at LSC-CyFair Branch Library. Click the title of a listed item, select the "Place Hold" button in the listing, and enter your library card number and PIN for each title you want to request for pick up at the library.

Use these subject words and phrases to find more information in the library catalog:

• child welfare United States
• income distribution United States
• living wage movement
• poor children United States
• poverty United States
• public welfare United States
• working class United States
• working poor

Winning the War on Poverty: Applying the Lessons of History to the Present by Brian L. Fife
Praeger, 2018
call number: 339.4 Fif

"Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United States--the most affluent country in the world--this book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it." - publisher's summary excerpt

"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages by Annelise Orleck
Beacon, 2018
call number: 331.5 Orl

"An urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists- small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage." - publisher's summary excerpt

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
Scribner, 2018
call number: 305.562 Sma

"An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country." - publisher's summary excerpt