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History of Poverty and Homelessness in the USA

History of Poverty and Homelessness in NYC
  • The Institute of Children, Poverty, and Homelessness presents timelines, maps, stories, and articles exploring the historical experience of family poverty and homelessness, and society's response to it.
Papers
  • Homelessness Past and Present: The Case of the United States, 1890-1924 (New England Journal of Public Policy)
  • Homelessness in Colonial America (blog post)
  • The History of Homelessness in America 1640s to Present ( Robert Fischer)
  • U.S. History in Context: Poverty (Gale)
  • Poverty in America
  • The History of the Official Poverty Measure (U.S. Census Bureau)
  • The Causes of Homelessness in America (Stanford University)

Books
  • Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History (Kenneth L. Kusmer)
  • The Poor Among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City (Nunez & Scribnick)

Articles
  • The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done (Atlantic Magazine, 1997)
  • The End of Welfare as We Know It (Atlantic Magazine, April 2016)​
  • 20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform'  (Atlantic Magazine, August 2016)​
  • The 'Welfare Queen' is a Lie (Atlantic Magazine, Sept 2016)