In 2005 an American nun was murdered in the Amazonian rain forest in Brazil. For forty years she worked on behalf of the poor, the landless, and the forest. The story of the life and death of Sister Dorothy Stang as told by Binka Le Breton.
Listen to Binka Le Breton tell the story of Sister Dorothy Stang on the Diane Rehm Show
Fifty-seven million Americans are too poor to be considered middle class and too wealth to qualify for government assistance. A sociologist describes the housing, education, health care, and debt challenges facing families living on the financial edge.
The main gist of this book is that a single mother cannot support four children on $30K per year, especially if they have medical conditions or mental disorders. This is the near-poor that does not want to be on government assistance, but is financially on par with the working or non-working poor due to their circumstances.