$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.
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Summary:
"After two decades of...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....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. "--| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Age Hold Protection | Active/Create Date | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hood River County Library | 339.46 EDI 2015 (Text) | 33892100310425 | Adult Non-Fiction | Book | None | 09/01/2015 | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9780544303188 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0544303180 (hardback)
- Physical Description: xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm
- 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 -- Conclusion: where, then, from here? |
| Summary, etc.: | "After two decades of...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....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. "-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Poverty > United States Income distribution > United States Poor > United States > Social conditions > 21st century. |
