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What Inequality Feels Like
Connect accounts of daily life with arguments about poverty, status, racism, housing, work, and the stories used to justify unequal outcomes.
Books in this collection
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich tests whether low-wage work can provide a route out of poverty by taking jobs in restaurants, housekeeping, caregiving, and retail. The experiment asks what wages can actually buy and shows how housing, hidden costs, employer control, and weak public support shape working people’s choices.
Evicted
Evicted traces how unaffordable rents, racialized housing markets, landlord discretion, court procedures, and weak public assistance turn ordinary hardship into forced displacement. Through Milwaukee families, landlords, and researchers, it asks how eviction creates poverty—and what housing policy could interrupt that cycle.
