Spring 2019 PD Week Poverty Resources
Thank you to everyone who participated in our College conversation on poverty, and a special thank you to all who sent additional resources. We received a lot of interest from colleagues for a comprehensive list of resources mentioned throughout the week. Please reference the following resources as you continue exploring solutions to poverty and social inequality.
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Pew Research Center: "Philadelphia's poor: Experiences from below the poverty line"
Sarah Goldrick-Rab, Jed Richardson, and Anthony Hernandez (Wisconsin Hope Lab), “Hungry and Homeless in College: Results from a National Study of Basic Needs Insecurity in Higher Education”
NPR: “Too Little, Too Much: How Poverty and Wealth Affect Our Minds”
Brookings Institute: “Raj Chetty in 14 charts: Big findings on opportunity and mobility we should all know”
“Ten Steps to Equity in Education”
University of Chicago Poverty Lab
Marcella Bombardieri, “Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty”
Rutger Bregman, “Poverty isn’t a lack of character; it’s a lack of cash”
United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Paul Hernandez, The Pedagogy of Real Talk: Engaging, Teaching, and Connecting With Students at Risk (also available in the Main Campus library 1st Floor)
Paul Hernandez, “Educator Training Reimagined Through Real Talk”
City of Philadelphia Community Health Assessments (2014-2017)
Cara Feinberg, “The Science of Scarcity”
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Earl Shorris, Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course for the Humanities
Ron French, “Car repairs and rent checks: a bold plan to keep Michigan students in college”
Maryjoan Ladden, “Creative Communities Are Addressing Social Isolation”
Brookings Institute: “Who was poor in the United States in 2017?”
Garrett Neiman, “4 Innovative Ways Colleges and Universities Are Fighting Poverty”
Bankole Thompson, “Bankole: Colleges can be anti-poverty institutions”
Dwyer Gunn, “The Power of Peers in Anti-Poverty Programs”
Rita Giordano, “Where do you live? It may give clues to how old you’ll grow, federal data suggest”
Alfred Lubrano, “New Census figures on Philly neighborhoods show inequality, high numbers of whites living in poverty”
Juliana Feliciano Reyes, “How Philly is using city jobs to tackle poverty”
Broke in Philly, “collaborative reporting on economic mobility”
Generocity, “local social impact news and events group with a mission of building better communities through smarter impact”
Our last announcement as you continue exploring solutions to poverty and social inequality:
On Thursday, January 17, 2019, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Pennsylvania Convention Center Nutter Theater, a screening of the documentary film Quest will be held as a part of “The Prosperity Symposium: Economic Mobility Research in Action.” Quest is a critically acclaimed documentary about a family living in North Philadelphia that explores community-driven solutions and resilience.
On Friday, January 18, 2019, Resolve Philadelphia, UPenn, and their community partners are hosting “The Prosperity Symposium: Economic Mobility Research in Action,” a free day of activities, talks and brainstorming around solutions for economic mobility with some of the city’s most knowledgeable researchers, community leaders and journalists.
View the Prosperity Symposium website for more information and a schedule of events.