{"product_id":"2940013245839","title":"Looking Up At The Bottom Line: The Struggle For the Living Wage","description":"Looking Up At The Bottom Line by Richard R. Troxell is an intense personal, political, and educational guide through the last 30 years of homelessness in America, a journey which presents Troxell's workable solution to economic homelessness in America: the Universal Living Wage. The author has been striving to end homelessness since he first witnessed it as a self made mortgage foreclosure preventionist in Philadelphia in the 1980s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                      ------------------------\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable! An energizing, engaging book that can lead to the end of homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers. This book takes off where all the other minimum wage, living wage books end.\u003cbr\u003eMichael Stoops\u003cbr\u003eNational Civil Rights Organizer for the\u003cbr\u003eNational Coalition for the Homeless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... the only book on the subject that combines in such depth both personal stories of low wage workers and their families, on the one hand, and analytic arguments about the costs and benefits of living wages, on the other. The idea of indexing wages to housing costs just may be the right way to think about this.\"\u003cbr\u003eRobert Pollin\u003cbr\u003eAuthor of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTroxell's accounts of the homeless point to a profound break down in our culture - a society that grows more rootless and disconnected with each passing year. After reading this book your next experience at a highway intersection will be radically changed. The bedraggled figure holding a cardboard sign will not be a complete stranger. You won't be looking at a bum; you'll be seeing another human being and into the brokenness of our culture.\u003cbr\u003eTom Spencer\u003cbr\u003eCEO Austin Area Interreligious Ministries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompassion means to suffer (pati) with (com) another. To suffer with! Unfortunately in today's world the idea of compassion is confused with the liberal notion of charity as opposed to a genuine call to justice. Richard Troxell has shared and taken on the pain of others and battled like a great warrior the institutional mindset that prevents humans from simply doing what is right.\u003cbr\u003eAlan Graham\u003cbr\u003ePresident Mobile Loaves \u0026amp; Fishes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, someone with some common sense! Troxell lays out a plan that will end homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum wage workers- without costing tax payers a dime. Plus, this is a great read - a compelling activist's tell.\u003cbr\u003eJim Hightower\u003cbr\u003eRadio commentator and editor of The Hightower Lowdown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e... the inspiration and key to Bringing America Home for millions of people through the Universal Living Wage - by indexing employment income to housing costs.\u003cbr\u003eSue Watlov Phillips, M.A., C.S.P.\u003cbr\u003eExecutive director of Elim Transitional Housing\u003cbr\u003eFounder Minnesota and National Coalition for the Homeless\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTroxell's outstanding advocacy and efforts on behalf of the homeless are legend and truly appreciated by those he helps and those who admire his selfless work.\u003cbr\u003eKirk Watson\u003cbr\u003eTexas State Senator , District 14","brand":"Plain View Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152834838768,"sku":"2940013245839","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013245839_p0.jpg?v=1763578868","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013245839","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}