Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

Linda Tirado

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 October 2014
Pages
224
ISBN
9780349005485

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She was working all hours at two jobs - as a food service worker in a chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist at a non-profit organization - to support her young family. She knows what it’s like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any.

In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that Tirado wrote and posted online was read and shared around the world. In Hand to Mouth, she gives a searing, witty and clear-eyed insider account of being poor in the world’s richest nation. She looks at how ordinary people fall or are born into the poverty trap, explains why the poor don’t always behave in the way the middle classes think they should, and makes an urgent call for us all to understand and meet the challenges they face.

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