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Author:

Morduch, Jonathan, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Finance, Personal--United States.
Financial security--United States.
Poor families--United States.
Middle class families--United States.
United States--Economic conditions--21st century.

Other Authors:

Schneider, Rachel, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references (pages [203]-223) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0691172986
9780691172989

OCLC:

(OCoLC)958799688

LCCN:

2016955128

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