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This book might be nine years old. But we know that the numbers and general trend line of poverty has not changed significantly since then. In fact, I wonder what the Dobbs ruling has done to exacerbate many of the issues outlines in this book.

A sad book. Informative, yes, but the human stories are what make the facts and figures and stats stand out as more than just numbers on a page. It‘s also sad that this issue has only gotten worse after the pandemic.

Interesting and sad. The book focuses on several families around the US who subsist mostly on SNAP, and the lengths they have to go to just to survive. The book is five years old now, and it would be interesting to read an update. I suspect some of the solutions the authors present are outdated. But the horrifying personal stories will stick with me.

(quarantine book #77; read a book featuring economics)

Sad but good.

The poverty problems in the country merit our attention. It‘s true horror reading, but I always want to learn as much as I can.

This is short and to the point, and incredibly depressing. We should not have people living like this anywhere in the US. I think, as a country, we are so out of touch with what really happens in our own country. I grew up in rural Missouri and I know there were times we had very little - something I realize now more as an adult with a better understanding of how things work. We can do better, and we should.

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Two dollars is less than the cost of a gallon of gas, roughly equivalent to that of a half gallon of milk. Many Americans have spent more than that before they get to work or school in the morning. Yet in 2011, more than 4 percent of all households with children in the world‘s wealthiest nation were living in a poverty so deep that most Americans don‘t believe it even exists in this country.

Gives me a new perspective on poverty such as Nickeled and Dimed made me look at all the people that make my life easier that are never thanked and appreciated

Another reread for discussion - such a great book' Well-written & informative, and the personal stories are incredible.

Compelling research and interviews. I feel like there could have been more expansion on the general thesis and some clean up on transitions from stories to statistics, but the foundation is there. Maybe best read in conjunction with Matthew Desmond's Evicted.

This book has some interesting information and compelling stories, but suffers from average writing and a lack of editing. It could have been so much more.