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008			140814s2014 nyu 000 0 eng
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020			_a9780399171987 (hardback)
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100	1		_aTirado, Linda, _eauthor. _94351
245	1	0	_aHand to Mouth : _bliving in bootstrap America / _cLinda Tirado.
300			_axxiv, 195 pages ; _c24 cm.
505	0		_aIt takes money to make money -- You get what you pay for -- You can't pay a doctor in chickens anymore -- I'm not angry so much as I'm really tired -- I've got way bigger problems than a spinach salad can solve -- This part is about sex -- We do not have babies for welfare money -- Poverty is fucking expensive -- Being poor isn't a crime--it just feels like it -- An open letter to rich people.
520			_a"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. Tirado is the real thing." -from the foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, 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. In her thought-provoking voice, 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." --
520			_a"An examination of what it means to be poor in America today"--
546			_aText in English.
650		0	_aPoor _zUnited States. _94352
650		0	_aPoverty _zUnited States. _94353
650		0	_aSocial classes _zUnited States. _94354
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