图书标签: 美国 英文 纽约时报 社会 经济 政治 非虚构 科普
发表于2024-11-21
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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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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.
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.
评分“A little bit of cash means a little bit of freedom.”
评分写的倒是很亲民很故事性,没什么直接的理论引用,或多或少还是让我联想到了Marx/Spitzer对于资本主义市场的描述,万分符合这些赤贫家庭找不到工作只能做social junk/dynamite的地步。比较有意思是美国历届政府如何将“福利养穷人养懒人”(里根口中的welfare queen)根植于人心,并将其归因于个人失职而非结构因素,真是糟糕透了。农村的赤贫家庭比大城市中的家庭更岌岌可危。始终没有搞懂研究的方法论是怎样的,通常是给受访者一部分钱做补偿,但对于如此赤贫的家庭到底怎样的补偿才不至于影响研究的中立性。结尾中提出要为家庭提供就业、住房、以及现金流太理想了 Chris
评分世上有三类福利系统,如果都能向北欧那样全民福利自然最好,但这样的要求即便对美国来说都是幻想。所以政府在80年代之后选择了加强了对working poor的福利,降低贫困线左右家庭的贫困率,而对更加底层、没有稳定工作的人来说简直就像噩梦。近三十年来,工作的重要性被不断强调,好的工作本身却不断地在被剥夺,或者说没有提供给人民,真是悲伤的悖论。
评分灯塔国的另一面,深刻地揭露了美帝国主义腐朽的社会体质和受资本家欺压,又被统治阶级剥夺了最基本的社会福利保障的无产阶级人民的悲惨生活
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