Paying The Price Of Being Poor
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Paying The Price Of Being Poor
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Bevan Foundation
Release Date : 2009
Paying The Price Of Being Poor written by and has been published by Bevan Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Poor categories.
The Price We Pay
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Author : Clive R. Belfield
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008-07-01
The Price We Pay written by Clive R. Belfield and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Education categories.
While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education. In this volume, leading scholars from a broad range of fields—including economics, education, demography, and public health—attach hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and such critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. They explore policy interventions that could boost the education system's performance and explain why demographic trends make the challenge of educating our youth so urgent today. Improving educational outcomes for at-risk youth is more than a noble goal. It is an investment with the potential to yield benefits that far outstrip its costs. The Price We Pay provides the tools readers need to analyze both sides of the balance sheet and make informed decisions about which policies will pay off. Contributors include Thomas Bailey (Teachers College, Columbia University), Ronald F. Ferguson (Harvard University), Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia University), Jane Junn (Rutgers University), Brendan Kelly (Columbia University), Enrico Moretti (UCLA), Peter Muennig (Columbia University), Michael Rebell (Teachers College, Columbia University), Richard Rothstein (Teachers College, Columbia University), Cecilia E. Rouse (Princeton University), Marta Tienda (Princeton University), Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), and Tamara Wilder (Teachers College, Columbia University).
The Price Of Low Pay
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Author : Low Pay Unit
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Price Of Low Pay written by Low Pay Unit and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
The Cost Of Being Poor
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Author : Sandra L. Barnes
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The Cost Of Being Poor written by Sandra L. Barnes and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
While the negative effects of urban poverty are well documented, the everyday experiences of urban residents are often absent or secondary in urban studies research. The Cost of Being Poor rectifies this problem by examining both the noneconomic and the often-overlooked economic costs faced by residents of poor urban neighborhoods in Gary, Indiana. Using census, regional, and local data, and in-depth interviews with the residents of Gary, Sandra L. Barnes argues that many people incur costs resulting from the dual dilemma of being poor and residing in a poor urban area. She explores how factors such as race/ethnicity, neighborhood type, and location influence residents' views, coping strategies, and unconventional approaches toward making ends meet. Well written and accessible, this study of Gary's poor urban neighborhoods offers broad findings that apply to other similarly impoverished Rust Belt cities.
Nickel And Dimed
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Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Nickel And Dimed written by Barbara Ehrenreich and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Social Science categories.
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted 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. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Hand To Mouth
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Author : Linda Tirado
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Hand To Mouth written by Linda Tirado and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the Best 5 Books of 2014 — Esquire "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 attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." —from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like—on all levels. Frankly and boldly, Tirado discusses openly how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why “poor people don’t always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.”
The Price Of Low Pay
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Author : Dominic Byrne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985*
The Price Of Low Pay written by Dominic Byrne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985* with categories.
The Poverty Penalty
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Author : Grant Horsfield
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2009
The Poverty Penalty written by Grant Horsfield and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Ethics categories.
This study examines the lives of the poor in relation to those more fortunate. In particular, it looks into the injustices the poor are forced to face when trying to escape poverty. It examines a common assumption made by prominent academics (Prahalad and Hammond, 2002; Gage 2004; Prahalad, 2005), that the cost of basic goods and services are significantly more than those more fortunate. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative means to prove this 'poverty penalty'.
Why The Poor Pay More
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Author : Frances Williams
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1977-08-31
Why The Poor Pay More written by Frances Williams and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-08-31 with Social Science categories.
The High Cost Of Being Poor
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Author : Annie E. Casey Foundation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The High Cost Of Being Poor written by Annie E. Casey Foundation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with People with social disabilities categories.