Books by Janet Poppendieck
“What Sweet Charity? demonstrates is that when you have food pantries and food banks growing in number, it is a direct indication of the loss of democracy, of public programs, and the cutting away of public assistance programs. So back in the 70s, after the time of the Welfare Rights Movement and Jimmy Carter, you had a lot of fantastic programs that were coming up and hunger was going way down. It was phenomenal. But then Ronald Reagan came into power and started cutting all of these assistance programs…Wages started getting very stagnant, and so in order to make up for the loss of investment by government, churches and community organizations started running food pantries. So there’s a direct correlation between what the government stopped doing for its people and what different churches started to do. Ronald Reagan and many others encouraged the idea that all of a sudden basic needs should be met with charity. So what Jan Poppendieck does in this book is she problematizes charity.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Janet Poppendieck were recommended
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Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty
by Annelise Orleck -
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
by William J. Barber II -
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Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
by Janet Poppendieck -
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Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
by Andrew Fisher -
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Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
The best books on Hunger in the United States, recommended by Mariana Chilton
Hunger in the United States is not going to be solved just by giving people more food, says Mariana Chilton, a professor of public health at Drexel University and author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America. She recommends books to get a better understanding of hunger and argues that food banks have become part of the problem.
