Household Accounts -- Contents -- A Note on Household Accounts and Its Preparation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Living on the Margin": Working-Class Marriages and Family Survival Strategies -- 2. "Cooperative Conflict": Gender, Generation, and Consumption in Working-Class Families...

In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour,...

"We examine the relationship between the business cycle and poverty for the period from 1960 to 2008 using income data from the Current Population Survey and consumption data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. This new evidence on the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and poverty...