Online Learning Module
UCF's Office of Experiential Learning provides:
- Poverty"Students will explore two different theories on poverty, become familiar with the stories of regular people who are living on the threshold of homelessness, examine and reflect on the current poverty lines defined by U.S. government, and challenge stereotypes held about people living in poverty and homelessness."
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CRS Reports
Congressional Research Service Reports
- Poverty Measurement in the United States: History, Current Practice, and Proposed ChangesApril 12, 2010
- Poverty in the United States: 2010March 9, 2012
- Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2008
- The Impact of Refundable Tax Credits on Poverty RatesSeptember 14, 2011
- Social Security's Effect on Child PovertyDecember 22, 2011
- Children in Poverty: Profile, Trends, and IssuesNovember 25, 2008
- Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of Female-Headed Families with Children: 1987-2010December 20, 2011
- Other Resources for CRS Reports
U.S. Census Bureau Resources
- Poverty (U.S. Census Bureau)- Poverty Data
- How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty
- History of Poverty Measure - Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates
- Experimental Poverty Measures
- The Measure of Poverty (1976)a collection of technical papers prepared for Congress
U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
- Poverty Guidelines, Research, & Measurement- Poverty Guidelines
- Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines, & Their History
Poverty & Homelessness (CQ Researcher)
Books and Encyclopedias
Early English Books Online
a collection of books on the subject of Poor Laws
EBSCOhost eBooks (formerly NetLibrary)
search for books on the subject of "poor"
Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources
Call Number: Reference HN 57.S6243 2006
Social Issues Primary Sources Collection
Poverty in America: An Encyclopedia
Call Number: Reference HC 110 .P6 L375 2008
Poverty & the Government in America: A Historical Encyclopedia
Call Number: Reference HC 110 .P6 P595 2009
Encyclopedia of World Poverty
Call Number: Reference HV 12 .E54 2006
Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart, 1960-2003
Call Number: General Collection HC 110 .P6 G543 2006
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Other UCF Books
Search the UCF Library catalog for:
- almshouses
- charity laws & legislation
- child welfare
- economic assistance, domestic
- food relief
- low income housing
- maternal & infant welfare
- poor
- poor children
- poor families
- poor laws
- poor persons
- poor women
- poverty
- public welfare
- rural poor
- urban poor
- welfare economics
- welfare recipients
- welfare state
- workhouses
- working poor
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