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Edelman & Ehrenreich, "What Really Happened to Welfare" The Nation

Peter Edelman, "The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done" Atlantic Monthly

Many distressed homeowners, spurred on by certain real estate agents and without clear disclosures from their lenders, are looking to do short sales. Bill Purdy discusses short sale perils and, more broadly, borrowers' rights. Also, Peter Edelman highlights the unavailability and inadequacy of badly-needed assistance for poor people.

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Conn Hallinan, "Something About Yemen" CounterPunch

Elizabeth Kneebone & Emily Garr, "The Suburbanization of Poverty" The Brookings Institution

The republic of Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula has come under great scrutiny by the Obama administration. Foreign policy analyst Conn Hallinan explains what the interest in Yemen might tell us about US geopolitical intentions in Asia. And Elizabeth Kneebone, co-author of a new report, talks about how American suburbs have become home to the largest population of poor people in the country.

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Susan Schweik, The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public NYU Press, 2009

Barbara Ehrenreich, "Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?" New York Times

The so-called ugly laws banned people considered unsightly and disgusting from exposing themselves to public view. According to Susan Schweik, these city ordinances are loaded with significance, for what disability has meant and still does, for class antagonisms and political agency, and for how elites deal with those they despise and fear.

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Martin Sanchez-Jankowski, Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods UC Press, 2008

 

Should poor urban neighborhoods be written off as dysfunctional, disorganized, irredeemable? In a new book, Martin Sanchez-Jankowski contends that poor neighborhoods are in fact organized and functional in important ways. He also found that despite material deprivation, many residents manage to craft lives that are meaningful and rewarding.