Riis, J.A. (1901). How The Other Half Lives: Studies Among The Tenements of New York. New York, NY: Scribner. "Riis writes to exhort, and his book is thick with indignation at the callousness of the middle and upper classes. Much of his sympathy for the poor likely came from his own experience as an immigrant. Riis came to New York in 1870, just as the economy was beginning to slow. He spent years precariously teetering between joblessness, hunger, homelessness, and thoughts of suicide. Finally, in 1877, he took a job as a police reporter for the Tribune and set out on a career of chronicling crime and poverty," (Link to text: journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/portfolio/books/book287.html).
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