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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.
LIBRA HC110.P6 E343 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edin, Kathryn, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--United States.
- Poverty.
- Poor.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Income distribution--United States.
- Income distribution.
- Poor--United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Two dollars a day
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Welfare is dead
- Perilous work
- A room of one's own
- By any means necessary
- A world apart
- Where, then, from here?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780544303188
- 0544303180
- OCLC:
- 898052725
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