Kathryn J Edin, H Luke Shaefer

$2.00 a Day

Living on Almost Nothing in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. 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. 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. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Through this book's eye-opening analysis and many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780544811959
• ISBN-10: 054481195X
• Artikelnr.: 44381205

Autorenporträt

KATHRYN J. EDIN is the William Church Osborne Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. The author of nine books, Edin is widely recognized for using both quantitative research and direct, in-depth observation to illuminate key mysteries about poverty: ?In a field of poverty experts who rarely meet the poor, Edin usefully defies convention? (New York Times).