
$2.00 a Day
Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Allyson Johnson
We have made great steps toward eliminating poverty around the world - extreme poverty has declined significantly and seems on track to continue to do so in the next decades. Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank estimates that extreme poverty can be eliminated in 17 years. This is clearly cause for celebration.
However, this good news can make us oblivious to the fact that there are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day. That figure, the World Bank measure of poverty, is hard to imagine in this country - most of us spend more than that before we get to work or school in the morning.
In $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer introduce us to people like Jessica Compton, who survives by donating plasma as often as 10 times a month and spends hours with her young children in the public library so she can get access to an Internet connection for job-hunting; and like Modonna Harris who lost the cashier's job she had held for years, for the sake of $7.00 misplaced at the end of the day.
They are the would-be working class, with hundreds of job applications submitted in recent months and thousands of work hours logged in past years. Twenty years after William Julius Wilson's When Work Disappears, it's still all about the work. But as Edin and Shaefer illuminate through incisive analysis and indelible human story, the combination of a government safety net built on the ability to work and a low-wage labor market increasingly designed not to deliver a living wage has delivered a vicious one-two punch to the would-be working poor.
More than a powerful expose of a troubling trend, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our central national debate on work, income inequality, and what to do about it.
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Some reviewer suggested that the book lacks deep political analysis and did not provide well-thought solutions, so, it is worth pointing out that this book is meant to be small in size and content, so the reader won't get overwhelmed. Basically the target audience of his book is simply: everyone!
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It is worth mentioning that there are lots of factors that effect the (family) which is the core component of any society, and finance is just one factor. Poverty is a side effect of much deeper problems. The core problem lays in the moral philosophy. Take political corruption for example, why does most politicians get corrupt when they get to power?
Did you notice that broken homes (usually) yield broken homes? And even if one manages to survive a broken home and get successful, he carries a psychic scar all his life!
There are rich broken homes, poverty is just one of the factors.
We need more social studies to find out the reasons behind the decline of moral compass, and come up with radical solutions, not just get rid of the side effects.
My two cents.
An eye-opener simply for every one to read
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sad but accurate ethnography
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Must Read
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learned so much
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this makes me so sad
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A Solid Case Study of an Extremely Important Issue
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Heart warming & heart wrenching at the same time
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I am awed by the industriousness of the families profiled in this book, by their pluckiness and their togetherness, the love for their children and their spouses and their parents.
This book will change how you view poverty... and maybe that's a good thing.
Changed my View
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Heartbreaking, Infuriating, Paradigm Changing, and a MUST READ
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