The Resource Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world, Linda Tirado
Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world, Linda Tirado
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- Summary
- Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any. In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world
- Title
- Hand to mouth
- Title remainder
- the truth about being poor in a wealthy world
- Statement of responsibility
- Linda Tirado
- Title variation
- Living in bootstrap America
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She has worked all hours as a food service worker in a chain restaurant to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any. In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world's richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don't always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face
- Summary
- We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits. She articulates not only what it is to be working poor in America (yes, you can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like on all levels? Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should
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- 10358762
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Tirado, Linda
- Dewey number
- 305.569
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HC110.P6
- LC item number
- T57 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- True
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- Poverty
- Social classes
- Poor
- Target audience
- adult
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- living in bootstrap America
- Label
- Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world, Linda Tirado
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000053442731
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxiv, 195 p.
- Isbn
- 9780349005485
- Lccn
- 2014023347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891980405
- Label
- Hand to mouth : the truth about being poor in a wealthy world, Linda Tirado
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000053442731
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xxiv, 195 p.
- Isbn
- 9780349005485
- Lccn
- 2014023347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)891980405
Subject
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity
- Overseas item
- Poor -- United States
- truePoor people
- truePoverty
- truePoverty -- United States
- Social class
- trueSocial classes -- United States
- trueSociety and culture -- Wealth and class | Poverty
- trueWorking poor people
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