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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1026513284 Title: The financial diaries : how American families cope in a world of uncertaininty Author: Jonathan Morduch; Rachel Schneider Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017. ©2017 ISBN/ISSN: 9780691172989 0691172986 OCLC:1026513284

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The financial diaries : how American families cope in a world of uncertaininty

Author:	Jonathan Morduch; Rachel Schneider
Publisher:	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017. ©2017
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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.
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Subjects	Finance, Personal -- United States. Financial security -- United States. Poor families -- United States. View all subjects
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Jonathan Morduch; Rachel Schneider Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780691172989 0691172986
OCLC Number:	1026513284
Description:	xii, 233 pages : illustrations, graphs, ; 25 cm
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.
Responsibility:	Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider.

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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.

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