Books & Podcasts
Books
- Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America – Barabara Ehrenreich
- White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America – Nancy Isenberg
- Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance & the Criminalization of Poverty – Kaaryn Gustafson
- Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare – Frances Fox Piven
Articles, Collections, & Data
Popular & News Articles
- COVID-19 Illustrates Once Again the Two Different Americas
- Stigma, Shame & Frustration: Cashless Welfare Card Found to Do More Harm than Good
- The Health Threats of Welfare Stigma
- The Stigma of Poverty: In Conversation with Rebecca de Souza
- Why Welfare Reform Didn’t End Welfare Stigma
- I have Used Food Banks & Understand the Stigma of Poverty
Academic Articles
- Welfare Stigma as a Risk Factor for Major Depressive Disorder – Tae-Young Pak
- Welfare stigma and risk taking in the welfare state – Thomas Eichner & Daniel Weinreich
- Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’. – Edith England
- Population dynamics of welfare stigma: Welfare fraud versus incomplete take-up – Jun-ichi Itaya & Kenichi Kurita
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Collections
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Affordable Housing
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: America’s Wealthy
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Capitalism
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Food Insecurity
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Gentrification
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Gig Economy
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Homelessness
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Income Inequality
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Minimum Wage
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Outsourcing
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Poverty
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Predatory Lending
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: School Funding
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Socialism
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Teen Homelessness
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Unemployment & Job Creation
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Wage Discrimination
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Wall Street
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Welfare Reform
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: White-Collar Crime