POVERTY

GNED 1300:  First Year Seminar

Fall, 2002

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."  (James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961)  

Useful Databases for Journal Articles

• Academic Search Premier  --  good for most general topics

• PAIS International  --  good coverage of the government's role in public affairs 

• PsycINFO  --  best database for the psychological aspects of poverty

• Social Sciences Abstracts  --  broad coverage of poverty as a social issue 

Reference Books

The International Glossary on Poverty, edited by David Gordon and Paul Spicker. 
Ref HC 79 .P6 I52 1999

Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Documents (Ready Reference) C 3.134:  2002

Welfare Reform:  a Reference Handbook, by Mary Ellen Hombs.
Ref HV 95 H564 1996

Statistical Sources

Current Population Survey.  Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance 1998 and 1999.
U. S. Documents C 3.275:IN 2/CD  (CD-ROM)

A Profile of the Working Poor, 2000.
U. S. Documents L 2.71:957

Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Documents (Ready Reference) C 3.134:  2002

Prepared by Barbara MacAlpine
Science Librarian, Trinity University
September 5, 2002