$144 a Month: Life in the Safety Net
by Bogira, Steve
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 1993. Tappin, Mike. Oblong octavo. 21pp. One of 200 copies. Four photographs by Mike Tappin depict people living on insubstantial government funds, the "safety net." The text by Steve Bogira, originally published in 1983 in the Chicago Reader, details the lives of those hovering at the poverty line, those who "are too good at surviving," and the government systems that dictate where and how funds are dispersed. In particular, the essay exposes how government programs and economic structures inordinately and inherently discriminate against people of color, and especially the Black community. It wrestles with a government's responsibility to its own citizens, and what it owes to those it marginalizes. Bound with leather cords in gray paper wrappers. Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29975
- Title
- $144 a Month: Life in the Safety Net
- Author
- Bogira, Steve
- Illustrator
- Tappin, Mike
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sherwin Beach Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Fine Printing;
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...