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©2015. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.50973 EDIN Central - Adult Nonfiction 3 available 362.50973 EDIN Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.50973 EDIN |
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2015 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"After two decades of...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....The authors illuminate a troubling...
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[2013?] | Nation Books | xii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | 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...
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[2010] | First edition. | Harper | 358 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 339.4 RIVLI |
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2010 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"A unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries--the business of poverty"--Provided by publisher.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.5 ARNAD
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362.5 ARNAD
Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.5 ARNAD
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[2019] | Sentinel | x, 284 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.5 ARNAD Central - Adult Nonfiction 3 available 362.5 ARNAD Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.5 ARNAD |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and unforgettable true stories. Arnade's raw, deeply reported...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
339.46 DESMO
Central - Adult Nonfiction 4 available
339.46 DESMO
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
339.46 DESMO
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[2016] | First edition. | Crown | x, 418 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 339.46 DESMO Central - Adult Nonfiction 4 available 339.46 DESMO Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 339.46 DESMO |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017. | Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 687 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 339.46 DESMO |
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"[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...
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2012 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a rhetorical club to be wielded in ideological battles.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.50973 TIRAD
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.50973 TIRAD
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
362.50973 TIRAD
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2014. | G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) | xxxiv, 195 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.50973 TIRAD Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.50973 TIRAD Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 362.50973 TIRAD |
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2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"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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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.562 LASKA
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.562 LASKA
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[2012] | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 318 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.562 LASKA Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.562 LASKA |
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2012 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. The stories are about the people who make our lives run every day--and how people barely think of them.
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
331.481 LAND
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
331.481 LAND
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
331.481 LAND
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | First edition. | Hachette Books | xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 331.481 LAND Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 331.481 LAND Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 331.481 LAND |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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7 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | English | Checked Out
7 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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[2019] | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 331.481 LAND |
Description
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree,...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
331.481 LAND
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
331.481 LAND
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
331.481 LAND
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | First edition. | Hachette Books | xiv, 270 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 331.481 LAND Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 331.481 LAND Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 331.481 LAND |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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Checked Out
7 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Grand Central Publishing | English | Checked Out
7 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 331.481 LAND |
Description
At 28, Stephanie Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer, were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, and with a tenacious grip on her dream to provide her daughter the very best life possible, Stephanie worked days and took classes online to earn a college degree,...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
305.569 EHREN
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.569 EHREN2021
Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.569 EHREN
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2021. | 20th anniversary edition. | Picador : | xvi, 228 pages ; 21 cm | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.569 EHREN2021 Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.569 EHREN2021 Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.569 EHREN2021 | |
c2001 | Metropolitan Books | 221 p. ; 22 cm. | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 305.569 EHREN Glencarlyn - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.569 EHREN |
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2004 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, the author 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, she left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from...
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©2017. | Basic Books | ix, 268 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 339.46 SHAPI |
Description
"Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans, and over recent decades, white families have accumulated wealth at three times the rate of black families. In our increasingly diverse nation, sociologist Thomas M. Shapiro argues, wealth disparities must be...
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2004 | Knopf | xii, 319 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 305.569 SHIPL |
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2008 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
A portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse.
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2004 | Knopf | xii, 319 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 305.569 SHIPL |
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2008 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
A portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse.