Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

$2.00 a day

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

898052725

Responsibility statement

Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

Sub title

living on almost nothing in America

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. "--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Where, then, from here?

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Two dollars a day

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