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On Their Own  is meant to serve as a clarion call not only to policymakers, but to all Americans who care about the future of our young people.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49530399719697,"sku":"CIN0465077668G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49640053997841,"sku":"GOR013000476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352113778961,"sku":"CIN0465077668VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52584652570897,"sku":"NLS9780465077663","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0465077668.jpg?v=1751008233"},{"product_id":"one-in-four-book-martha-shirk-9780813366531","title":"One in Four","description":"This landmark book examines the most urgent social problem facing us today: the welfare of Americas children.. Lives on the Line melds sophisticated demographic analysis with affecting personal profiles to create a vivid portrait of what life is like for more than 13 million American children growing up below the poverty line. The authors shatter many commonly held stereotypes by analyzing census data to  show which American children are most likely to be poor. They also depict the realities of life for children below the poverty line. Journalist Martha Shirk takes readers along the paths that led the families to povertypaths sometimes littered with childhood abuse, parental loss, long-term battering by a spouse, teen pregnancy, and drug abuseand with each family explores their prospects for moving above the poverty threshold. In Lives on the Line, Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber meld affecting personal profiles with sophisticated demographic analysis to create a vivid portrait of what life is like for more than 14 million American  children growing up below the poverty line. In personal profiles of ten families across the  nation, from a Pacific Islander family in Hawaii to a homeless family in a wealthy New York City suburb, award-winning journalist Martha Shirk depicts the realities of life for children below the poverty line. She takes readers deep into the lives of families in povertylives sometimes marked by childhood abuse, parental loss, and long-term violenceand with each family explores their prospects for moving above the poverty threshold. Along the way, Shirk finds amazing resilience, resourcefulness, and strength of spirit in many of these  poor families.Neil G. Bennett, demographic research director for the highly respected National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University (NCCP), shatters many commonly  held stereotypes by analyzing Census Bureau data to show which American children are most likely to be poor. He reports, for instance, that over 60 percent of poor young children have at least one employed parent, that most poor young children live in suburban or rural areas, and that a parents graduation from high school is insufficient to insure against poverty. Among his most startling findings are that in the last two decades, the Young Child Poverty Rate grew significantly faster in the suburbs than in urban or rural areas,  and that it grew much faster among whites than among blacks.J. Lawrence Aber, the director of NCCP and a nationally recognized expert in child development and social policy, describes the effects of poverty on child development and showcases proven strategies for preventing or reducing child poverty. He also shows us that it is in our national self-interest  to address the problem of child poverty by making a smart investment in Americas future.As a powerful portrait of the effects of poverty on Americas children and families, Lives on the Line narrows the gap between them and us. 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