| Description |
xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Conclusion: where, then, from here? |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index. |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family.
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Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Poverty -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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| Subject |
Income distribution -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Shaefer, H. Luke.
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| Added Title |
Two dollars a day |
| ISBN |
9780544303188 (hardback) |
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0544303180 (hardback) |
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