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* Read * $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America A solid and perhaps time-sensitive read This book makes me want to thank my mother, profusely, for everything she did for me/us while I was growing up. Until reading this exposé, I hadn't really realized that some of her own strategies *were* actually strategies -- I just thought that, for example, going to the library a few times a week was what everyone did.It also mad. "Harrowing, genuine accounts of American poverty" according to Thomas A. Holmes. After reading Barbara Ehrenreich's NI
| Title | : | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.16 (659 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 054481195X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
A solid and perhaps time-sensitive read This book makes me want to thank my mother, profusely, for everything she did for me/us while I was growing up. Until reading this exposé, I hadn't really realized that some of her own strategies *were* actually strategies -- I just thought that, for example, going to the library a few times a week was what everyone did.It also mad. "Harrowing, genuine accounts of American poverty" according to Thomas A. Holmes. After reading Barbara Ehrenreich's NICKEL AND DIMED, my understanding of minimum-wage jobs changed a great deal because I came to realize just how that role in the United States' labor markets has changed. Her exploration of how difficult it is for a lone person to survive on those wages tore down the romantic, politically motivated perce. Rough read, but enlightening Angela C This is one of those books that is not an easy read. Don't get me wrong, the words flow nicely, I don't mean that. I mean the subject.When I purchased this book, I thought it was a book about how to live on $2.00 a day. I didn't realize it was a horrific look at people who were living on $2 a day! The writing drew me in and the stories ke
After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t seen before — households surviving on virtually no cash income. It is an explosive book The stories will make you angry and break your heart.” — American Prospect Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. “Harrowing An important and heart-rending book, in the tradition of Michael Harrington’s The Other America.” — Los Angeles Times. 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 one and a half million households, including about three million children. $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter
This is world class poverty at a level that should mobilize not only national alarm, but international attention.”. Edin and Shaefer's devastating account of life at $2 or less a day blows that myth out of the water. The rise of such absolute poverty since the passage of welfare reform belies all the categorical talk about opportunity and the American dream.”—The New York Times Book Review "With any luck (calling Bernie Sanders) this important book will spark election year debate over how America cares for it
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