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Working and Homeless in America — A Book Talk with Brian Goldstone — Resources

Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.

Wed Apr 30, 2025

Date

Wed Apr 30, 2025
3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT

Location



Contact

    [email protected]

Hosts

  1. Economic Opportunities Program
Books

Goldstone, Brian. “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” Penguin Random House. March 25, 2025.

Desmond, Matthew. “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” Crown Publishing Group. 2016.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” Picador Paper. June 1, 2021.

Rossi, Peter H. “Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness.” The University of Chicago Press. 1990.

 

Articles and Publications

Goldstone, Brian. “America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness.” The New York Times. March 1, 2025.

Goldstone, Brian. “The New American Homeless.” The New Republic.  August 21, 2019.

Goldstone, Brian. “3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.”  The California Sunday Magazine. November 26, 2019.

Mari, Francesca. “Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia.”  The New York Times. May 26, 2023.

“Phase One Study Findings – Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities.” Center for Social Innovation.  March 2018.

Shefsky, Jay. “Chicago Photographer Captures Toll of Opioids, Homelessness” WTTW News. December 28, 2017.

 

Websites and Additional Resources

Homelessness Data – HUD Exchange

Opportunity in America

Opportunity in America

, an event series hosted by the Economic Opportunities Program, considers the changing landscape of economic opportunity in the US and implications for individuals, families, and communities across the country. The series highlights the ways in which issues of race, gender, and place exacerbate our economic divides, and ideas and innovations with potential to address these challenges and broaden access to quality opportunity.

Learn More

The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. Follow us on social media and join our mailing list to stay up-to-date on publications, blog posts, events, and other announcements.

Books

Goldstone, Brian. “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.” Penguin Random House. March 25, 2025.

Desmond, Matthew. “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.” Crown Publishing Group. 2016.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.” Picador Paper. June 1, 2021.

Rossi, Peter H. “Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness.” The University of Chicago Press. 1990.

 

Articles and Publications

Goldstone, Brian. “America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness.” The New York Times. March 1, 2025.

Goldstone, Brian. “The New American Homeless.” The New Republic.  August 21, 2019.

Goldstone, Brian. “3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.”  The California Sunday Magazine. November 26, 2019.

Mari, Francesca. “Lessons From a Renters’ Utopia.”  The New York Times. May 26, 2023.

“Phase One Study Findings – Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities.” Center for Social Innovation.  March 2018.

Shefsky, Jay. “Chicago Photographer Captures Toll of Opioids, Homelessness” WTTW News. December 28, 2017.

 

Websites and Additional Resources

Homelessness Data – HUD Exchange

Opportunity in America

Opportunity in America

, an event series hosted by the Economic Opportunities Program, considers the changing landscape of economic opportunity in the US and implications for individuals, families, and communities across the country. The series highlights the ways in which issues of race, gender, and place exacerbate our economic divides, and ideas and innovations with potential to address these challenges and broaden access to quality opportunity.

Learn More

The Economic Opportunities Program advances strategies, policies, and ideas to help low- and moderate-income people thrive in a changing economy. Follow us on social media and join our mailing list to stay up-to-date on publications, blog posts, events, and other announcements.

Feeling the Heat: Workplace Safety in a Warming World

For the benefit of workers, businesses, and our society, we need to build workplace heat safety into our culture, policies, and practices if we are to adapt to our warming planet. Join the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program on Wednesday, July 30, at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, on Zoom to learn about how the warming climate is affecting workers, and what policymakers, businesses, and labor are doing to keep workers safe. This event is part of EOP’s Opportunity in America conversation series.

The Future of Equal Opportunity

“The Future of Equal Opportunity,” will explore the current landscape, emerging challenges, and the strategies needed to protect and strengthen opportunity in the American workplace.

Fixing Work: Recent Lessons from the Field

The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program will soon release a report, Fixing Work: Lessons from Job Quality Practitioners, based on in-depth interviews with more than 20 leaders across the country about the work they are doing to create good jobs that provide economic security, the opportunity to advance and grow, and a safe, dignified, and equitable workplace. 

How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration – Transcript (Panel 1)

How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration – Transcript (Panel 2)

How Good Jobs Support Small Business Success: Lessons from the Shared Success Demonstration – Resources

Advising Small Businesses on Job Quality: Lessons from CDFIs

Hear from CDFIs about their approaches to building job quality advising into their work, and share your questions and comments. We are eager to hear what you think!

Job Quality Fellowship Webinar – Transcript

In addition to providing an overview of the nomination and application process, we’re pleased to welcome two Job Quality Fellows to this conversation — Neidi Dominguez Zamorano, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, and Bo Delp, executive director of the Texas Climate Jobs Project — who will share their experience as members of the Fellowship.

Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle To Shape the American Economy — A Book Talk with Chris Hughes

Markets and our economy don’t just happen — they’re crafted. While we often hear about the “free market” as a natural force governed by the invisible hand, the reality is far more intentional.

Working and Homeless in America — A Book Talk with Brian Goldstone – Transcript

“There Is No Place for Us” not only brings these unseen lives into focus but also forces us to confront a pressing question: If hard work is no longer enough to keep a roof over one’s head, what does that say about the promise of economic opportunity in the US?