Scratch Beginnings
Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
New York : Collins, [2008]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xvi, 221 pages ; 24 cm
Recounts the experiences of the author, a college graduate, as he spends one year living as a homeless person and learns valuable lessons about what it takes to break out of the cycle of poverty in the United States.
Contents:
Introduction : July 24-setting up -- Welcome to Crisis Ministries -- EasyLabor -- Another day, another dollar -- Big babies -- Sundays with George -- Hustle time -- Job hunting 101 with Professor Phil Coleman -- Put up or shut up -- "First and last day" -- Adventures in moving -- Movin' on up -- Workers' consternation -- Winter with bubble gum -- Culture shocked -- Fighting for respect -- One last move -- Epilogue : a year later: a didactic look at what I learned and where we go from here.
Subjects:
Shepard, Adam.
Working poor -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States.
Responsibility.
Poverty -- United States.
Shepard, Adam.
Working poor -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States.
Responsibility.
Poverty -- United States.
Target Audience: 1040L
ISBN:
0061714364
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Poverty She | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |