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Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
The New York Times felt that "DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA is clear about its message: The system has failed, and the American dream has died.". [11] The film went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Documentary feature, the first Oscar win for the cable broadcast industry. [12] The film's negative has been preserved in the Academy Film Archive ...
The Myth of American Inequality is a 2022 book about American economics which asserts that "the federal government egregiously overstates the degree of inequality and poverty" in America. [1]
Hidden in America is a 1996 American television film about poverty in the United States. The film is directed by Martin Bell and stars Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison, Alice Krige, Jeff Bridges, Frances McDormand, and Jena Malone. Beau Bridges plays Bill Januson, a father struggling to support his family and whose pride and optimism prevent him ...
The Best American Short Stories 1988, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Shannon Ravenel and by guest editor Mark Helprin. [1] In announcing the publication of this annual edition, Publishers Weekly noted that it is an "at times inspired anthology which draws from small and big-gun literary magazines in equal measures [and] is heralded by a sonorous, sagacious ...
I recently sat down with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in his office at Columbia Business School. In this clip, Stiglitz discusses why he worries about poverty in America. Have a look.
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The nature of poverty in rich countries has changed. The sort of material deprivation common in developing nations is effectively a thing of the past. But millions of ...