02732nam 22006374a 450 991078202780332120230207225552.01-59213-458-01-59213-786-5(CKB)1000000000522949(EBL)951124(OCoLC)806203265(SSID)ssj0000282532(PQKBManifestationID)11227694(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282532(PQKBWorkID)10317053(PQKB)10272968(MiAaPQ)EBC951124(Au-PeEL)EBL951124(CaPaEBR)ebr10182525(CaONFJC)MIL514667(EXLCZ)99100000000052294920050527d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOrdinary poverty[electronic resource] a little food and cold storage /William DiFazioPhiladelphia, PA Temple University Press20061 online resource (233 p.)Labor in crisisDescription based upon print version of record.1-299-83416-7 1-59213-014-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.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; IndexAt 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 Labor in crisis.PovertyUnited StatesPoorUnited StatesCase studiesSocial justiceUnited StatesUnited StatesEconomic policyUnited StatesSocial policyPovertyPoorSocial justice362.5/0973DiFazio William1521684MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782027803321Ordinary poverty3806682UNINA