$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America /

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Author / Creator:Edin, Kathryn J.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Description:xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:Poverty -- United States.
Income distribution -- United States.
Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family.
Income distribution.
Poor -- Social conditions.
Poverty.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10357798
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Varying Form of Title:Two dollars a day
Other authors / contributors:Shaefer, H. Luke.
ISBN:9780544303188 (hardback)
0544303180 (hardback)
9780544303249 (ebooks)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.
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. "--

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