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Collection:
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Adult Nonfiction |
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Call Number:
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339.46 |
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Author:
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Edin, Kathryn |
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Title:
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$2.00 a day |
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Remainder of title:
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living on almost nothing in America |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"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. "-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780544303188 (hardback) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780544303249 (ebooks) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us--- |
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Classification number:
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HC110.P6 |
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Item number:
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E343 2015 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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339.4/60973 |
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Source of number:
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bisacsh |
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Classification number:
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SOC026000 |
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Classification number:
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SOC045000 |
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Classification number:
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SOC026010 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1962- |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer. |
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Title proper/short title:
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Two dollars a day |
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Place of publication:
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New York ,NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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Date of publication:
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2015 |
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Boston : |
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |
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2015. |
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Extent:
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210 pages |
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Dimensions:
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24 cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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Bibliography, etc. note:
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Donated by Andrew Fenniman |
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Purchase price:
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28.00 |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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Income distribution |
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Subject:
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Sociology / Marriage & Family |
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Subject:
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Poverty & Homelessness |
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Subject:
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Sociology / General |
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Subject:
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Poverty |
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General subdivision:
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Social conditions |
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Chronological subdivision:
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21st century. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States. |
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Personal name:
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Shaefer, H. Luke. |
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Purchase |
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20160726 |
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330334 |
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Amazon |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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hb09 2016-07-26 to LOAN |
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rm13 2015-07-17 |
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xk04 2015-08-27 to CALM |
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rm13 2015-07-17 ONIX (telework) |
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xl03 2015-07-17 |