"A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just another assignment. All illustrate what the late Barbara...

"The young readers' edition of the bestselling adult book of the same name"--

"Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned--and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. But what few of us realize is how the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate...

A definitive look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team?including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. They have defined the modern world. This experience defined them. Today, PayPal?s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry?s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised...

Transcriptions of inteviews conducted by The Bracero Oral History Project. This project highlights the need for the gathering and preservation of structured as well as openended oral interviews, documentation and analysis. The preservation of existing documents, testimony, family correspondence, photos, and narratives are an invaluable research resource for future studies. Hence, the significance of Los Braceros: Memories of Bracero Workers 1942-1964...

"Competition and competitiveness are roundly celebrated as public values and key indicators of a dynamic and forwardthinking society. But the headlong embrace of competitive market principles, increasingly prevalent in our neoliberal age, often obscures the enduring divisiveness of a society set up to produce winners and losers. In this inspired and thoughtfully argued book, the author turns to the later writings of W.E.B. Du Bois to reevaluate the...