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2024-11-04
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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.
“A little bit of cash means a little bit of freedom.”
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。
评分考察美国不同地区(大城市贫民区、破落工业城市、南方农业区和逐渐有起色的中小城市)中每人日可支配现金不超过2美元(略高于世行UN贫困线,美本国贫困线1/8到1/5)家庭生活状态。现金为王、稳定地址和可观身体是就业先决条件的美式生活方式,缺乏现金收入剥夺赤贫家庭稳定有序生活的机会。福利改革后除食物券外现金福利、退税等多以稳定低收入工作为条件,但大量单身母亲和赤贫人口投入市场,低收入服务业工作状况进一步恶化,部分社区彻底凋敝,无现金困境更为突出。兼职就业、忍受低工资、频繁换工、非法交易福利以至个人身份,踏入非正式经济,卖血浆,居无定所依赖救助,食物券用完后只吃杯面,依靠不太可靠且改善不多的亲人网络维生,各出奇谋维持生计。但结尾提出用更完善的工作要求确保赤贫重新融入社会和美国价值,似适得其反。
评分考察美国不同地区(大城市贫民区、破落工业城市、南方农业区和逐渐有起色的中小城市)中每人日可支配现金不超过2美元(略高于世行UN贫困线,美本国贫困线1/8到1/5)家庭生活状态。现金为王、稳定地址和可观身体是就业先决条件的美式生活方式,缺乏现金收入剥夺赤贫家庭稳定有序生活的机会。福利改革后除食物券外现金福利、退税等多以稳定低收入工作为条件,但大量单身母亲和赤贫人口投入市场,低收入服务业工作状况进一步恶化,部分社区彻底凋敝,无现金困境更为突出。兼职就业、忍受低工资、频繁换工、非法交易福利以至个人身份,踏入非正式经济,卖血浆,居无定所依赖救助,食物券用完后只吃杯面,依靠不太可靠且改善不多的亲人网络维生,各出奇谋维持生计。但结尾提出用更完善的工作要求确保赤贫重新融入社会和美国价值,似适得其反。
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