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Books:

Living Wage:

Andersson, Fredrik.  Moving up or Moving On: Who Advances in the Low-Wage Labor Market?  NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.

    Available at Germantown Library: HD 4918 .A59 2005

Bianco, Anthony.  Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville: How the High Cost of Everyday Low Prices is Hurting America.  New York:

     Doubleday, 2007.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HF 5429.215 .U6 B52 2007

Blank, Rebecca M.  Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-Wage Workers.  New York:

     Russell Sage Foundation, 2006

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HD 5724 .W6417 2006

Edin, Kathryn.  Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997.

    Available at Rockville Library: HQ 759.915 .E34 1997

Gilbert, Dennis L.  The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003.

    Available at Rockville Library: HN 90 .S6 G54 2003

Iverson, Roberta R.  Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press,

     2006.

     Available at Rockville and Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus Libraries: HD 8066 .I94 2006

Karger, Howard J.  Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2005.

     Available at Rockville and Takoma Park/Silver Spring Libraries:  HG 178.33 .U6 K37 2005

Kendall, Diana E.  Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littleman, 2005.

     Available at Rockville and Takoma Park/Silver Spring Libraries: HN 90 .M3 K46 2005

Luce, Stephanie.  Fighting for a Living Wage.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.

    Available at Germantown Library: HD 4975 .L83 2004

Munoz, Mercedes.  Is Poverty a Serious Threat?  Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2006.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HC110 .P6 I8 2006

Newman, Katherine S.  Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.

    Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring and Rockville Libraries:  HD 8081 .A5 N49 2006

Quigley, William P.  Ending Poverty as we Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HD 4975 .Q54 2003

Rank, Mark B.  One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HV 91 .R363 2005

Rodgers, Harrell, R.  American Poverty in a New Era of Reform.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000

    Available at Germantown and Rockville Libraries: HC 110 .P6 R638 2000

Schiller, Bradley R.  The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2004.

    Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HC 110 .P6 S27 2004

Shorris, Earl.  New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

    Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HV 4045 .S46 1997

Shulman, Beth.  The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families.  New York:

     Norton, 2005.

     Available at Rockville and Takoma Park/Silver Spring Libraries: HD 4975 .S46 2005

Health Care:

Derickson, Alan.  Health Security for All: Dreams for Universal Health Care in America.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University

     Press, 2005.

     Available at Rockville Campus Library: RA 395 .A3 D47 2005

Engel, Jonathan.  Poor People's Medicine: Medicaid and American Charity Care Since 1965.  Durham: Duke University, 2006.

     Available at Germantown and Rockville Libraries: RA 412.4 .E54 2006

Holosko, Michael J.  Health and Povery.  New York: Haworth Press, 1997.

     Available at Rockville Library: RA 418.5 .P6 H385 1997

Kawachi, Ichiro.  The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health.  New York: New Press, 2006.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: RA 418.5 .P6 K39 2006

Marmot, M.G.  Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity.  New York: Times Books, 2004.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: RA 418.5 .S63 M37 2005

O'Neil, Edward.  Awakening Hippocrates: A Primer on Health, Poverty and Global Service.  Chicago: American Medical

     Association, 2006.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HC 79 .P6 O55 2006

Rhodes, Rosamond.  Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care.  New York: Oxford University

     Press, 2002.

     Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library:  RA 418 .M43 2002

Videos:

ABC News.  On the Edge: America's Working Poor.  Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.

     Available at Germantown and Takoma Park Silver Spring Libraries:  HC 110 .P6 O6 2004

     Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library copy on reserve and available from the Circulation Desk.

Crane, Michelle.  Investigative Reports: Wage Slaves! Not Getting By in America.  New York: A&E Home Video, 2002.

    Available at Rockville Library: HC 106.83 .W34 2002

Gilliam, Jim.  Wal-Mart The High Cost of Low Price.  New York: Retail Project, 2005.

    Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HF 5429.215 .U6 W365 2005 - Copy is on reserve and

    available at the Circulation Desk.

Young, Rick.  Is Wal-Mart Good for America?  Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 2004.

    Available at Takoma Park/Silver Spring Library: HF5429.215 .U6 I8 2005

    Copy is on reserve and available at the Circulation Desk.