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Author DiFazio, William

Title Ordinary Poverty : a Little Food and Cold Storage
Published Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Ordinary Poverty; 2 Soup Kitchen Blues: 1988-1993; 3 Beggars Can't Be Choosers: 1993-2000; 4 The Dialectic of Sister Bernadette: The Limits of Advocacy; 5 Forgetting Poverty: A Seder for Everyone; 6 Conclusion: Making Poverty Extraordinary; Notes; Index
Summary At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and throughout New York City. In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, DiFazio presents the results of welfare reform - from ending entitlements to diminished welfare benefits - through the eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program to guara
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Subject St. John's Bread and Life (Soup kitchen)
SUBJECT St. John's Bread and Life (Soup kitchen) fast
Subject Poverty -- United States
Poor -- United States -- Case studies
Social justice -- United States
Economic policy
Poor
Poverty
Social justice
Social policy
SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140033
United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
Subject United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781592137862
1592137865