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The Resource $2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

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"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 Harris and 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."--Publisher information
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
xxiv, 210 pages
Contents
  • Welfare is dead
  • Perilous work
  • A room of one's own
  • By any means necessary
  • A world apart
  • Conclusion: Where, then, from here?
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9780544303188
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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America
Title
$2.00 a day
Title remainder
living on almost nothing in America
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Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
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  • Two dollars a day
  • Living on almost nothing in America
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Language
eng
Summary
"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 Harris and 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."--Publisher information
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Dewey number
339.4/60973
Index
index present
LC call number
HC110.P6
LC item number
E343 2015
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
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Publication
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index
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volume
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text
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rdacontent
Contents
Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Conclusion: Where, then, from here?
Control code
ocn898052725
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xxiv, 210 pages
Isbn
9780544303188
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Lccn
2015004337
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other control number
40025196078
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(OCoLC)898052725
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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America, Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Conclusion: Where, then, from here?
Control code
ocn898052725
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xxiv, 210 pages
Isbn
9780544303188
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Lccn
2015004337
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Other control number
40025196078
System control number
(OCoLC)898052725

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