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Language
English
Description
"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job--any job--can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered....
Author
Language
English
Description
"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup...
Author
Series
Current population reports. Series P-60 Consumer income volume no. 138
Publisher
U. S. Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
1983.
Physical Desc
vi, 213 pages ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Current population reports. Series P-60 Consumer income volume no. 133
Publisher
U. S. Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"By official count, more than one out of every six American children live beneath the poverty line. But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America."--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Series
Current population reports. Series P-60 Consumer income volume no. 186RD
Publisher
U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 61 pages, 73 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Series
Current population reports. Series P-60 Consumer income volume no. 182-RD
Publisher
U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief...
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Language
English
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"Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance. It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working poor-the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of Americans, financial insecurity...
20) Inherent good
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As an urgent response to swelling economic anxiety and wealth inequality in America, comedian Trae Crowder takes people on a journey to the South to explore a transformative idea of giving free cash to every citizen, no strings attached.
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