Lives on the Line: American Families and the Struggle to Make Ends Meet Год выпуска: 0Автор: Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, J. Lawrence Aber, Bill BradleyИздательство: Страниц: 0ISBN: 0813338204Описание This landmark book examines the most urgent social problem facing us today: the welfare of America's children. In Lives on the Line, Martha Shirk, Neil G. Bennett, and J. Lawrence Aber meld affecting personal profiles with sophisticated demographic analysis to create a vivid portrait of what life is like for more than 14 million American children growing up below the poverty line. In personal profiles of ten families across the nation, from a Pacific Islander family in Hawaii to a homeless familyin a wealthy New York City suburb, award-winning journalist Martha Shirk depicts the realities of life for children below the poverty line. She takes readers deep into the lives of families in poverty-lives sometimes marked by childhood abuse, parental loss, and long-term violence-and with each family explores their prospects for moving above the poverty threshold. Along the way, Shirk finds amazing resilience, resourcefulness, and strength of spirit in many of these poor families. ...
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