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  1. Class Struggle at the Waistline
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
  2. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  3. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  4. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  5. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  6. The Crisis of Color and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
  7. Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
  8. Dying for Growth
    Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor

    Resource Type: Book
  9. Finding North
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
  10. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  11. The Impact of Inequality
    How to Make Sick Societies Better

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  12. Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists
    Study suggests being preoccupied with money problems is equivalent to loss of 13 IQ points or losing a night's sleep

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    People who are poor expand so much mental energy on the immediate problem of paying bills or cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important problems.
  13. Toronto's Poor
    A Rebellious History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2916
    Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
  14. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.

Experts on Poverty & Health in the Sources Directory

  1. Partners in Population and Development
  2. World Bank
  3. World Health Organization


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