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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544303188 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0544303180 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm
print - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Where, then, from here? |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Poor United States Social conditions 21st century Income distribution Poverty |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | 339.46 E23t 2015 (Text) | 33126020913871 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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A revelatory assessment of poverty in America examines the survival methods employed by households with virtually no income to illuminate disturbing trends in low-wage labor and income inequality. - Baker & Taylor
A revelatory assessment of poverty in America examines the survival methods employed by households with virtually no income to illuminate disturbing trends in low-wage labor and income inequality. 25,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harrisand her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn't seen since the mid-1990s -- households surviving on virtually no income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has "turned sociology upside down" (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich -- and truthful -- interviews. Through the book's many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. More than a powerful expose, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality. "-- - Book News
The authors profile eight families living on two dollars per person, per day in Chicago, rural hamlets in the Mississippi Delta, Cleveland, and Johnson City, Tennessee, to illustrate how America's social safety net is not working. They discuss the effects of welfare reform, the lack of good jobs, and housing costs on these families, as well as what they do to survive, such as donating plasma, selling SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) benefits, and stretching resources, and strategies to help them. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - HoughtonThe story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think existsâfrom a leading national poverty expert who âdefies conventionâ (New York Times)
- HoughtonA revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, donât think it exists
Jessica Comptonâs family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. ÂAfter two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadnât seen since the mid-1990s â households surviving on virtually no income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children. ÂWhere do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has âturned sociology upside downâ (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich â and truthful â interviews. Through the bookâs many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. ÂThe authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among Americaâs extreme poor. More than a powerful exposé, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.ÂÂÂÂ