Class or Income Stigma
Books & Podcasts
Books
Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America – Barabara Ehrenreich
Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective – Kirsteen Paton
Evicted: Poverty & Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America – Nancy Isenberg
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap – Matt Taibbi
Automating Inequality – Virginia Eubanks
Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance & the Criminalization of Poverty
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare – Frances Fox Piven
Articles & Data
Popular/News Reading
- 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
- Welfare Fraud & Welfare Stigma, Gideon Yaniv
- Welfare Stigma & Children’s Behavior, Christina Robinson et al.
- The Persistence of Welfare Stigma: Does the Passing of Time & Subsequent Employment Moderate the Negative Perceptions Associated with Unemployment Benefit Receipt?, Timothy Schofield et al.
- Pathologizing Poverty: New Forms of Diagnosis, Disability, and Structural Stigma Under Welfare Reform, Helena Hansen et al.
- Welfare Stigma as a Risk Factor for Major Depressive DIsorder, Tae-Young Pak
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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: Monopolies
- 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: Urban America
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Wage Discrimination
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Wall Street
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Welfare Reform
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: White Collar Crime