Bibliograph

The financial diaries, how American families cope in a world of uncertainty, Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider

Type

Label

The financial diaries, how American families cope in a world of uncertainty, Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographic references (pages [179]-223) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The financial diaries

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

958799688

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider

Sub title

how American families cope in a world of uncertainty

Summary

Drawing on the groundbreaking U.S. Financial Diaries project (http://www.usfinancialdiaries.org/), which follows the lives of 235 low- and middle-income families as they navigate through a year, the authors challenge popular assumptions about how Americans earn, spend, borrow, and save-- and they identify the true causes of distress and inequality for many working Americans

Table Of Contents

Introduction: A hidden inequality -- Worlds of uncertainty -- Earning -- Spending -- Smoothing and spiking -- How families cope -- Saving -- Borrowing -- Sharing -- New ways of seeing -- Sometimes poor -- Secure and in control

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