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Author Morduch, Jonathan, author.

Title The financial diaries : how American families cope in a world of uncertainty / Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  332.024 MORDUCH    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  PERSONAL FINANCE 332.024 MORDUCH    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  332.024 MOR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  332 MOR    Check Shelf
Description xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages [179]-223) and index.
Contents A hidden inequality -- Worlds of uncertainty. Earning ; Spending ; Smoothing and spiking -- How families cope. Saving ; Borrowing ; Sharing -- New ways of seeing. Sometimes poor ; Secure and in control.
Summary Drawing on the groundbreaking U.S. Financial Diaries project (http://www.usfinancialdiaries.org/), which follows the lives of 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigate through a year, the authors challenge popular assumptions about how Americans earn, spend, borrow, and save-- and they identify the true causes of distress and inequality for many working Americans.
Subject Finance, Personal -- United States.
Financial security -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Poor families -- United States.
Middle class families -- United States.
Added Author Schneider, Rachel, author.
ISBN 9780691172989
0691172986
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