The Cost Of Being Poor
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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.
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.
The Extra Cost Of Being Poor
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Author : Trienah Meyers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Extra Cost Of Being Poor written by Trienah Meyers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Economic policy categories.
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 High Cost Of Being Poor
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Author : Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The High Cost Of Being Poor written by Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
The good news is that today more low-income parents--in rural as well as urban communities--are holding down jobs and bringing home a paycheck than at any other time in recent memory. Like all parents, they hold fast to the belief that their hard work and sacrifice will translate into a better life for themselves and their children. The bad news is that, despite working hard and playing by the rules, far too many low-income parents in rural communities still find severe obstacles in their path out of poverty. Despite their best efforts to succeed in the workplace, many find it nearly impossible to build the savings and assets that are, for all families, the critical ingredients for achieving genuine economic security. Even though low-income parents are working harder and longer, too many find it difficult to get by and get ahead. For the low-income rural working family it must seem as though they are bringing their hard-earned wages home in a leaky bucket--losing some of it to taxes, some to work related expenses, some to lost government benefits. And sadly, when they get home with what little is left, they find that the cost of caring for their families is greater than it is for everyone else. Clearly, if we are to level the "affordability" playing field for our most vulnerable families, much needs to be done. The good news, as indicated by the range of efforts taking place nationally, is that many are recognizing that paying more simply because you are poor is a practice that is out of sync with our country's core values. (Contains 35 endnotes.).
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'.
The Cost Of Being Poor
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Author : Jeanita Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2005-09-30
The Cost Of Being Poor written by Jeanita Richardson and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-30 with Medical categories.
Social problems, such as childhood lead poisoning, do not occur in a vacuum. As such, the definition of the problem requires a holistic examination of the broad social, political, and economic influences that create and perpetuate the issue of concern. Richardson does this with eloquence and heart. She also investigates the attitudes various groups have held toward the Residential Lead-based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (Title X). In doing so, she reveals much about the attitudes officials hold in general toward problems affecting poor communities and demonstrates how these attitudes directly affect policymaking and policy enforcement. The social consequences of lead poisoning analyzed in this volume fall into the following categories: • Housing • Health • Education • Policy-making • Legal Challenges The Cost of Being Poor would be useful to individuals in the fields of public health, policy, education, and law. Furthermore, this work would be of special use to educators, who would benefit from familiarity with lead poisoning as a factor in their students' lives and from becoming aware that there are options that poisoned children have to improve their situation. The first step necessary in eliminating social problems is to understand the nature of the problem. This study is a step in that direction.
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.
Health Economic Development And Household Poverty
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Author : Sara Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-09-12
Health Economic Development And Household Poverty written by Sara Bennett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution, this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett, Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays written by academics and experts in the fields of health policy and economic development, each underscoring the need for political commitment to meet the needs of the poor and the development of strategies to build this commitment, covering: evidence regarding the links between health, economic development and household poverty evidence on the extent to which health care systems address the needs of the poor and the near poor innovative measures to make health care interventions widely available to the poor. Current and topical, this book is of great relevance to policy makers and practitioners in the field of international health and development and researchers engaged with global health and poverty as well as being ideal reading for students of international health and development.
A Roadmap To Reducing Child Poverty
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2019-09-16
A Roadmap To Reducing Child Poverty written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Social Science categories.
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.