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Title The financial diaries : how American families cope in a world of uncertainty / Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider.
Author Morduch, Jonathan, author.
Publisher Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description xii, 233 pages : illustrations, graphs, tables ; 25 cm
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 EI-Adult Collection  332.024 MOR Nearby on shelf  30626003145956 07-14-17  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY 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.
Subject Finance, Personal -- United States.
Financial security -- United States.
Poor families -- United States.
Middle class families -- United States.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Add'l Names Schneider, Rachel, author.
Other title How American families cope in a world of uncertainty
ISBN 9780691172989