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Teacher Notes: It was not easy for me teaching in the East New York section of Brooklyn for 32 years.
East New York has a population around 90,000. Over half the population lives below the poverty line and receives public assistance.

National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students (U.S. Dept. of Education)

CLASP: Center for Law and Social Policy (law and policy affecting the poor)

Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change
CROP: Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (International Social Science Council)
NCCP: National Center for Children in Poverty
National Center for Law and Economic Justice
InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action
CFFPP: Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy

Poverty (U.S. Census Bureau)
Current Population Survey (CPS): Poverty Definition, Thresholds and Guidelines, Decennial Census, Recent Poverty Measurement Research, Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Small Area Estimates
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services
Causes of Poverty (Global Issues)
Poor Law Union and Workhouse records
Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Institute for Research on Poverty
IRP: Institute on Race & Poverty
Joint Center for Poverty Research
Homelessness/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
National Center on Family Homelessness
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Visions of Homelessness Curriculum
Homeless Education Online Curriculum
The Hunger Site