Contents: Introduction; The Wealthy Profit at the Expense of the Poor and the Middle Classes (James Lardner); The Wealthy Create Opportunities and Jobs for All Americans (Donald Ruskin); Wall Street Financiers Manipulate the Stock Market to Benefit Themselves (Ian Williams); Wall Street Financiers Help Millions of Investors Profit (Karl Zinsmeister); The American Tax System Gives the Wealthy Too Much Power (Mark Zepezauer); The American Tax System Punishes the Wealthy (Bill Sizemore); Rich Celebrities Have Too Much Political Influence (Darrell M. West); Celebrities Have Little Influence on Voters (Kevin Baron); Corporations Use Their Power to Benefit the Rich (Multinational Monitor); Corporations Use Their Power to Benefit All Sectors of Society (Radley Balko); Well-Funded Environmental Groups Abuse Their Power (John Perazzo); The Greedy Practices of Corporations Are Destroying the Environment (Michael Parenti); Wealthy Corporations Unfairly Influence News Coverage (Peter Hart and Julie Hollar); America's Wealthiest Citizens Give Away Billions to Improve Education (Richard Lee Colvin); Most Rich Americans Have Worked Hard to Obtain Their Wealth (B.Z. Khasru); Bibliography; Index.

Child Labour looks at the different kinds of work being done by children in the world today. It considers the main areas of debate about child labour, including child trafficking and bonded labour. The book then explores the arguments made by the various sides in the child labour debate and asks what is being done about the issue. Finally, students can find out what they can do to help stop the exploitation of children. Author: Kaye Stearman
Level: 1.g/C-D

Chapter One: Homelessness Issues
What is homelessness?, A brief history of homelessness, Homelessness in Scotland, Homelessness myths and facts, Housing and homelessness, Street homelessness, Street lifestyles, Statistics about homelessness, 23 year low in new cases of homelessness, Older homelessness, Asylum and immigration, Homeless people’s health, Alcohol and drugs.

Chapter Two: Youth Homelessness
The hidden homeless, Youth homelessness statistics, How does homelessness hurt?, Too much, too young, Mental health and youth homelessness.

Chapter Three: Homelessness Solutions
Preventing homelessness, Where to get help , Helping the homeless, Homelessness: key facts, Missed opportunities, Hard work for homeless people, The Big Issue, Emmaus communities, Leanne’s story.

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index

The number of homeless people who sleep outdoors — rough sleepers — has fallen in recent years. However, there are still 459 people sleeping on the streets in England on any one night, and many other homeless people live in hostels, squats, bed and breakfasts or with friends. Young homeless people and children are one of the most vulnerable groups in the UK. This book looks at the problem of homelessness, and at some solutions.
Level: 8.-10. kl./AVUII-III/C-F etc.

Chapter One: Homelessness Problems
What is homelessness?; A brief history of homelessness; Homelessness: myths and facts; Street homelessness; Factors which increase risk of homelessness; Street homeless people's health; Older homelessness; How does homelessness hurt?; What do we know about the homeless?; Too much, too young; Mental health and youth homelessness; Activities.

Chapter Two: Homelessness Solutions
Where to get help; Homelessness: key facts; Preventing homelessness; Two case studies; The Big Issue; Hard work for homeless people; Emmaus communities; Activities.

Key Facts;  Glossary (web links at the end of most articles)

This is a beautiful, quietly provocative book which sets out to understand the human diet by exploring what culturally diverse families eat for a week.. Photojournalist Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio began their research for this book on the world's eating habits in 2000, visiting some 30 families in 24 countries. Each family was asked to purchase — at the authors' expense — a typical week's groceries, which were arrayed for a full-page family portrait. This is followed by a detailed listing of the goods, broken down by food groups and expenditures, then a more general discussion of how the food is raised and used, illustrated with a variety of photos and a family recipe. A sidebar of facts relevant to each country's eating habits (e.g. the cost of Big Macs, average cigarette use, obesity rates, life expectancy etc.) raise further questions. The photos are extraordinary and it's the questions they ask that make this volume so gripping. After considering the Darfur mother with five children living on $1½ a week in a refugee camp and then the German family of four spending $500, and a host of families in between, we may think about food in a whole new light.  We see how some people can survive healthily on far less food than others — and end up with less diabetes, heart disease, etc. We learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Cultures can suddenly move from traditional diets to the world of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more nutritionally questionable food. There are also essays from leading nutritionists, scientists, environmentalists, for instance Diabesity and Slow Foods. The photography and descriptions of the families are brilliant — because the book makes many of its points through the eye, we see, and feel, more than we might otherwise do.
Level: Gymnasiet/HTX etc. — A great resource for projects together with samfundsfag, biologi etc./Library/Depot

This book presents the latest facts, figures and arguments about World Poverty in order to enable young people to make up their own minds about this important question. Contents include: Why are People Poor? – Is Poverty a Worldwide Problem? – Does Poverty Affect Health? –  Can We End Poverty Worldwide – Reference – Glossary – Further Information.
Level: C/Introduktionsprojekter/10.kl.

(Replaces Poverty)

In Britain 22% of people live in households with less than 60% of the median income. Children from a disadvantaged background can be up to 2 years behind their classmates educationally by the age of 14. Globally, half the world's population live on less than $2 a day. This book looks at poverty in the UK and overseas:

Chapter One: Poverty in the UK
Poverty: the facts; Britons lose sympathy for the poor; Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007; Missing school trips make you poor, say British kids; Britain's forgotten poor; Household income; Wage gap too large, say three out of four Britons; Minimum living standards; Growing inequality; Disabled people and poverty; Paying the price of poverty; Poverty and debt; Living with hardship 24/7; Public attitudes to child poverty; Keeping mum; The cost of education; Social exclusion; 2 skint 4 school; Child poverty: true or false? Disadvantage and achievement; Mind the gap; One in five UK families can't afford heating; What are benefits?; Benefit claims and poverty; Welfare shake-up scraps incapacity benefit.

Key Facts;  Glossary Index;  Additional Resources (websites etc.);  Index.

Chapter One: Teenage parents
Teenagers: sexual health and behaviour, Information on teenage pregnancy, Teenage pregnancy, Teenage pregnancy – what to do, Consequences of teenage births, Sex education and teenage pregnancy, Sex education that works, Beyond biology, Call for sex education in primary schools, Mum’s the word, Pregnancy in teenage girls ‘all part of nature’s law’, Poverty and young parenthood, Teenage mums should not be stigmatised, The stigma of being a teenage mum, Getting teenage mums ‘back to school’, When lads become dads, Toddlers to help halt teen pregnancies.

Chapter Two: Lone-Parent Families
Welfare and single parenthood in the UK, Welfare and single parenthood in the UK: statistics, Lone parent families, Dependent children, Why UK is Europe’s single-parent capital, Benefits and tax credits, How many lone parents are receiving benefits?, Top ten survival tips for lone parents, Parenting alone, Birth fathers’ rights.

Key Facts;  Glossary;  Additional Resources;  Index