Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
by Alissa Quart
Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies to workplaces without paid family leave or even dependable and regular working hours. Many realize that attaining the standard of living their parents managed has become impossible.
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job — any job — can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour?
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Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987
by Joseph Rodriguez
New York City in the late ’70s was a collection of villages with its downtown scene, midtown workers, and uptown elegance. But, NYC was also a place of chaos and mayhem. Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy with rampant crime it was the city’s drug users, dealers, and pimps and prostitutes who ruled the streets of Manhattan.
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