Poverty Knowledge

"The Anti-Poor" is a transformative guide that challenges the mindset and habits keeping individuals trapped in cycles of poverty, both financially and mentally. This powerful book empowers readers to embrace education, financial literacy, and self-growth as tools to build sustainable wealth and lasting success. It emphasizes the importance of passing knowledge, values, and skills to future generations, creating a ripple effect of opportunity and abundance. With actionable strategies and inspiring insights, the book unlocks the secrets to thriving, not just surviving. "Empower Minds, Break ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New...

Although written at the turn of the century its themes are still current. From Poverty to Power is a concise and informative guide to the development of the human spirit. These two books in one: "The Path to Prosperity" and "The Way of Peace," are both inspirational and motivational!

Karl Popper's THE POVERTY OF HISTORICISM is one of the most important books on the social sciences to have appeared since the Second World War. It is also the work of one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, and a devastating criticism of the idea that there are laws of development in history and that human beings are able to discover them. Popper dedicated the book to all those who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny

Bridging the Gap: Exploring Theories of Information Poverty and Their Modern Relevance is a comprehensive exploration of how unequal access to knowledge shapes opportunity, power, and participation in today’s world. Drawing on the work of influential thinkers like Elfreda Chatman and building on insights from sociology, communication studies, and library science, this book reveals the many dimensions of information poverty—structural, cultural, psychological, digital, and global. From the roots of knowledge inequality to the impact of the digital divide, each chapter examines a ...

Debt is a part of our life now, so give up “Keeping Up With The Jones” because that mentality is just going to keep you in debt. Debt has slowly crept into our lives and it has got to the point where it controls what we do. And sometimes we suddenly find that it controls us. Before debt was usually manageable but as expenses have increased and pay-checks haven’t, debt can sometimes seem like a big heavy block holding us back. As taxes and secondary tax are taking more away and giving less back, problems are starting to arise. Also every new regulation introduced by our unelected and ...

The book is written through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl after she finds out the factory has shut down and her father has no job. The story chronologically sets out what the family did to survive on less money like shopping in charity shops and going to food banks as well as getting pellets for wood for winter. Also the family started the garden and started selling their excess stuff that they didn't need on the internet. They didn't want to do a garage sale because everything was sold too cheap and they wouldn't make any money. Anyway if you want to find out what they did you can read ...

Education is the greatest equalizer—it can break the chains of poverty and open doors to dignity, success, and hope. Power of Education is a moving collection of real-life stories that capture the struggles and triumphs of families who had little but dared to dream big. From farmers, daily-wage laborers, and street vendors who sacrificed everything for their children’s schooling, to students who studied through hunger, hardship, and doubt, this book brings to life the extraordinary power of education to transform lives. Through inspiring journeys of children who rose to become doctors, ...

Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected children. States and their revenue consultants use illusory schemes to siphon Medicaid funds intended for children and the poor into general state coffers. Child support payments for foster children and families on public assistance are converted into government revenue. And the poverty industry keeps expanding.

Dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world, this book questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world’s poorest people. It also questions whether the aid packages provided are genuine or whether they are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries. BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance ...

Marx started work on this book in January 1847, as can be judged from Engel's letter to Marx on January 15, 1847. By the beginning of April 1847, Marx's work was completed in the main and had gone to the press. On June 15, 1847, he wrote a short foreword. Published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, the book was not republished in full during Marx's lifetime. Excerpts from section five of Chapter Two appeared in different years, mostly between 1872-1875 in papers such as La Emancipacion, Der Volksstaat, Social-Demokrat, and others.

In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female.

From Poverty to Power shows how one may rise above adversity and poverty by taking the paths of material prosperity and truth to ultimately reach the goal of spiritual peace. Enduring success in any field is shown to be the result of inner adjustment and growth.

In The Poverty of the World, Sheyda Jahanbani brings together the histories of United States foreign relations and domestic politics to explain why, during a period of unprecedented affluence, Americans rediscovered poverty and supported major policy initiative to combat it.