$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

from shelleyraec

In October 2014, ACOSS released a new report revealing that poverty is growing in Australia with an estimated 2.5 million people or 13.9% of all people living below the internationally accepted poverty line. Of those, 603,000 or 17.7%, are children. And as politicians whine about the increasing c...

from katiekrug

I can't say very much about this book because it will fill me with rage and spike my blood pressure. But the number of families in the US with no cash income - none, zero, nada - is outrageous and heartbreaking. They basically subsist on SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) and selling SNAP when ...

from arubabookwoman

Back in the 1980's Ronald Reagan popularized the myth of the welfare queen. In the 1990's, Bill Clinton "reformed" welfare, so that very few people would receive assistance in the form of cash. Now, most welfare assistance is received in the form of SNAP, aka food stamps. By 2011, the number of f...

from akblanchard

Twenty years after "welfare reform" abolished the cash safety net designed to protect the poorest Americans, sociologists Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer find through their fieldwork that 1.5 million families with children are caught in the trap of extreme poverty. All too often the "$2.00-a-day...

from ddb07

Vignettes of various individuals and families struggling to pursue meaningful employment and basic comforts, living on very, very little money.