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Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-350) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Alissa Quart -- The body: Introduction / Camonghne Felix ; Love and war / Karie Fugett ; A stay at Kings County / text and photos by Charlie Gross ; I did my own abortion because Texas used COVID-19 as an excuse to shut down abortion clinics / Anonymous, as told to and with an introduction by Anna Louie Sussman ; "Woman afraid of dying while they are trying to find their life" / Alissa Quart, with an introduction by Katha Pollitt ; Medicaid has been good to my body, but it has abandoned my brain / Katie Prout ; My disability is my superpower : if only employers could see it that way / Andrea Dobynes Wagner, as told to Deborah Jian Lee ; A trip to the nail salon with missing fingers / Kim Kelly ; Traumatic pregnancies are awful : Dobbs will make them so much worse / Alissa Quart ; The twisted business of donating plasma / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington ; To help the homeless, offer shelter that allows deep sleep / Lori Teresa Yearwood ; Inequity in maternal health care left me with undiagnosed postpartum PTSD / Courtney Lund O'Neil ; Anything of value / Lorelei Lee -- The home: Introduction: The organized abandonment of shelter / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ; Homeless in a pandemic : the housing poetry of Jennifer Fitzgerald / poems and images by Jen Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Alissa Quart ; Meet Tomeka Langford / Anne Elizabeth Moore ; Unaddressed / Bobbi Dempsey ; Evictionland / Joseph Williams ; 37,000 US veterans are homeless : I was one of them / Alex Miller ; Why I choose to live house-free in Alaska / Joe Ford ; I was wrongly detained at the border : it's part of a larger problem / David Wallis ; I watched war erupt in the Balkans : here's what I see in America today / Elizabeth Rubin ; A fierce desire to stay : looking at West Virginia through its people's eyes / Elizabeth Catte, with photographs by Matt Eich, and poetry by Doug van Gundy -- Family: Introduction / Michelle Tea ; Don't be this way forever / text and images by Jordan Gale ; When my father called me about his unemployment / Lisa Ventura ; I took in a homeless couple : would you? / Annabelle Gurwitch ; My marriage was broken : the coronavirus lockdown saved it / Robert Fieseler ; P.S. 42 / Celina Su, with a photo by Annie Ling ; My sister is a recovering heroin addict : I can't fix her, but she also can't fix herself / Elizabeth Kadetsky ; In the pandemic, cooking connected me to my ancestors / Elizabeth Gollan ; The underground economy of unpaid care / Julie Poole ; The worst part of being poor : watching your dog die when you can't afford to help / Bobbi Dempsey ; Nomen est omen / Mitchell S. Jackson -- Work: Introduction: To make work visible, again and again / Kathi Weeks ; How the taxi workers won / text and images by Molly Crabapple ; My pandemic year behind the checkout counter : on working amid paranoid customers, hungry shoplifters, sick coworkers, and people who just need a bathroom / Ann Larson ; From academic to assembly-line worker : my life of precarity in Middle America / Gloria Diaz ; Once upon a time, waitress was a union job : could history repeat itself? / Haley Hamilton ; Why I check the "Black" box : I learned racial ambiguity was not something I could afford / Lori Teresa Yearwood ; My life as a retail worker : nasty, brutish, and poor / Joseph Williams ; What it's like riding along with a valet driver at a San Francisco strip club / text and photos by Rian Dundon ; You talk real good / Alison Stine ; The secret lives of adjunct professors / Gila K. Berryman ; The poetry of labor : on Rodrigo Toscano and the art of work / Rodrigo Toscano, with an introduction by Alissa Quart and a photograph by David Bacon ; Zen and the art of Uber driving / John Koopman -- Class: Introduction / Astra Taylor ; The difference between being broke and being poor / Erynn Brook, with illustrations by Emily Flake ; That sinking feeling / Ray Suarez ; Off our butts : how smoking bans extinguish solidarity / June Thunderstorm ; Never-ending sentences / Philip Metres ; The dignity of the thrift store / Elizabeth Gollan ; Class dismissed / Alison Stine ; For years, I've tried to work my way back into the middle class / Lori Teresa Yearwood ; What does it mean to be "bad with money"? / Joshua Hunt. |
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Poverty -- United States.
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Poverty -- Health aspects -- United States.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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Poetry.
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| Addt'l Author |
Quart, Alissa, editor, contributor.
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Wallis, David (David R.), editor.
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Economic Hardship Reporting Project (Firm), contributor.
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| Alt Title |
Living on the edge in the world's richest country |
| ISBN |
9781642599657 (paperback) |
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1642599654 (paperback) |
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