The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
- ISBN-10
- 0691172986
- ISBN-13
- 9780691172989
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 233
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-04-04
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Authors
- Jonathan Morduch, Rachel Schneider
Description
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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- 2019-01-29
- 256 pages
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- 2017-03-27
- 253 pages
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