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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.

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

$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.

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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.

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Full title

$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

Alternative title

Two dollars a day.

Call Numbers

G 2015/3464

Record Identifier

74VKRdPyA8WX

MMS ID

991023040369702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

Welfare is dead -- Perilous work -- A room of one's own -- By any means necessary -- A world apart -- Where, then, from here?

Publication information

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

2015.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"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. Afte...

Alternative Titles

Full title

$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer.

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Author / Artists

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

G 2015/3464

Record Identifier

74VKRdPyA8WX

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRdPyA8WX

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ISBN

0544303180 (hardback)

9780544303188 (hardback)

DDC

339.460973

MMS ID

991023040369702626

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