000734572 000__ 03321cam\a2200469\i\4500 000734572 001__ 734572 000734572 005__ 20210515110730.0 000734572 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000734572 007__ cr\cnunnnunnun 000734572 008__ 151218s2015\\\\mau\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000734572 020__ $$a9780544303249$$q(electronic book) 000734572 020__ $$z9780544303188 000734572 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn918995839 000734572 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)ebr11090710 000734572 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC3433171 000734572 035__ $$a734572 000734572 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000734572 043__ $$an-us--- 000734572 050_4 $$aHC110.P6$$bE343 2015eb 000734572 08204 $$a339.4/60973$$223 000734572 1001_ $$aEdin, Kathryn,$$d1962-$$eauthor. 000734572 24510 $$a$2.00 a day :$$bliving on almost nothing in America /$$cKathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer. 000734572 2463_ $$aTwo dollars a day 000734572 24630 $$aLiving on almost nothing in America 000734572 264_1 $$aBoston :$$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$$c2015. 000734572 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxiv, 210 pages) 000734572 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000734572 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000734572 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000734572 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000734572 5050_ $$aWelfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Where, then, from here? 000734572 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000734572 520__ $$a"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated 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 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. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has "turned sociology upside down" (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich -- and truthful -- interviews. Through the book's many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. 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. More than a powerful expose, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality. "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000734572 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000734572 650_0 $$aPoverty$$zUnited States. 000734572 650_0 $$aIncome distribution$$zUnited States. 000734572 650_0 $$aPoor$$zUnited States$$xSocial conditions$$y21st century. 000734572 7001_ $$aShaefer, H. Luke,$$eauthor. 000734572 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aEdin, Kathryn J., 1962-$$t$2.00 a day.$$dBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015$$z9780544303188$$w(DLC) 2015004337$$w(OCoLC)898052725 000734572 852__ $$bacq 000734572 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central 000734572 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3433171$$zOnline Access 000734572 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:734572$$pGLOBAL_SET 000734572 980__ $$aEBOOK 000734572 980__ $$aBIB 000734572 982__ $$aEbook 000734572 983__ $$aOnline