"Broke," The Man Without the Dime

The author travels through numerous American cities to document the conditions of homeless men, women, and children, reporting on municipal lodging houses, missions, prisons, and relief agencies through observation and photographs. He frames poverty as a social and systemic problem rather than an individual moral failing, critiques inadequate charitable and municipal responses, and offers practical proposals for municipal emergency homes and reforms to provide sanitary shelter and food while urging broader public responsibility for alleviating destitution.