Book Review: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Ehrenreich Barbara . 2001. Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.

Bramesfeld Kosha D. 2015 “The Game of Social Life: A Multidimensional Poverty Simulation.” Class activity published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. (http://trails.asanet.org)

Ilten Bobby Jo . 2015. “Using a Simulation to Understand the Difficulties of Living in Poverty.” Assignment published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. (http://trails.asanet.org)

Kotlowitz Alex . 1992. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the other America. New York, NY: Random House.

Newman Katherine . 1999. No Shame in My Game. New York, NY: Russell Sage.

U.S. Census Bureau. N.d. “Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).” Retrieved November 15, 2016 (http://www.census.gov/sipp/).

Venkatesh Sudhir A. 2006. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Vorsanger Susan . 2015. “Measuring Poverty in the U.S.” Class activity, Lecture, PowerPoint published in TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. (http://trails.asanet.org)