The Financial Diaries : : How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty /

The Financial Diaries : : How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty / / Jonathan Morduch, Rachel Schneider.

What the financial diaries of working-class families reveal about economic stresses, why they happen, and what policies might reduce themDeep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Morduch, Jonathan,
Schneider, Rachel,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 14 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. A Hidden Inequality
  • Worlds of Uncertainty
  • Chapter 1. Earning
  • Chapter 2. Spending
  • Chapter 3. Smoothing and Spiking
  • How Families Cope
  • Chapter 4. Saving
  • Chapter 5. Borrowing
  • Chapter 6. Sharing
  • New Ways of Seeing
  • Chapter 7. Sometimes Poor
  • Chapter 8. Secure and in Control
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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