Kathryn Edin
BLOOMBERG DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, Johns Hopkins University
am the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health. I received my Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University in 1991 and I have also taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and, most recently, Harvard University as a Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School and chair of their Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy. I am a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and on the Department of Health and Human Services advisory committee for the poverty research centers at Michigan, Wisconsin, and Stanford. I am a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and a past member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. In 2014 I became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
H. Luke Shaefer
Associate Professor of Social Work and Associate Professor of Public Policy
Luke Shaefer's research focuses on the effectiveness of the United States’ social safety net in serving low-wage workers and economically disadvantaged families.
His recent work explores rising levels of extreme poverty in the United States, the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on material hardships, barriers to unemployment insurance faced by vulnerable workers, and strategies for increasing access to oral health care in the United States.
Shaefer is further interested in non-profit management, particularly the economics of social service administration. He has significant non-profit program management experience and has served as board president for a public foundation and an education nonprofit.
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists
Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.
After two decades of brilliant 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.
Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has “turned sociology upside down” (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich — and truthful — interviews. Through the book’s many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge.
The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America’s extreme poor. More than a powerful exposé, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.
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發表於2024-11-07
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圖書標籤: 美國 英文 紐約時報 社會 經濟 政治 非虛構 科普
考察美國不同地區(大城市貧民區、破落工業城市、南方農業區和逐漸有起色的中小城市)中每人日可支配現金不超過2美元(略高於世行UN貧睏綫,美本國貧睏綫1/8到1/5)傢庭生活狀態。現金為王、穩定地址和可觀身體是就業先決條件的美式生活方式,缺乏現金收入剝奪赤貧傢庭穩定有序生活的機會。福利改革後除食物券外現金福利、退稅等多以穩定低收入工作為條件,但大量單身母親和赤貧人口投入市場,低收入服務業工作狀況進一步惡化,部分社區徹底凋敝,無現金睏境更為突齣。兼職就業、忍受低工資、頻繁換工、非法交易福利以至個人身份,踏入非正式經濟,賣血漿,居無定所依賴救助,食物券用完後隻吃杯麵,依靠不太可靠且改善不多的親人網絡維生,各齣奇謀維持生計。但結尾提齣用更完善的工作要求確保赤貧重新融入社會和美國價值,似適得其反。
評分In the beginning there is a brief history about American welfare reform. I find that the most informative. The detailed account of the history is also helpful.
評分看得還蠻快的一本。最後conclusion裏邊提到的其中一個解決之道還蠻有意思,就是福利繫統也要讓窮人感到有尊嚴,而不是感到被羞辱,他們不值得被羞辱。
評分In the beginning there is a brief history about American welfare reform. I find that the most informative. The detailed account of the history is also helpful.
評分燈塔國的另一麵,深刻地揭露瞭美帝國主義腐朽的社會體質和受資本傢欺壓,又被統治階級剝奪瞭最基本的社會福利保障的無産階級人民的悲慘生活
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