Lavena Staten

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Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

From Poor Law to Welfare State by Walter I. Trattner

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Poverty in America by John Iceland

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

The Cave by José Saramago

Educating for Insurgency by Jay Gillen

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This Fine Place So Far from Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class

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“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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