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Poor

Eating low on the hog

A housewife's noble--and occasionally tasty--experiment with a welfare diet

Manuel in the Thieves’ Market

by Oscar Lewis,

Subways Are for Sleeping

This article by Edmund G. Love (obituary), published in the March 1956 issue, was subsequently turned into a production by the CBS Radio Workshop (7.3 Mb MP3), a book, and…

Mister Rodriguez of Lisbon

by Mary McCarthy,

Living high on a low income

by Katharine Crosby MacInnis,

The strangest place in Chicago

by John Bartlow Martin,

Who are the American poor?

by Robert L. Heilbroner,

A plea for paupers

by Philip Everett Curtiss,

Hard on both of them

by Harper’s Staff,

A permanent job

by Harper’s Staff,

Business and philanthropy

by Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère,