The 235 families that were part of the year-long US Financial Diaries study recorded an average of 1,275,000 financial transactions. That rich data and their stories form The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty. On C-SPAN’s “Afterwords,” Partnership member Kathryn Edin interviewed authors Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider about poverty in America and abroad, the creative measures low-income families use to build up savings, shifts in and out of poverty, the role of government policy in improving job quality, and more.
Video of their conversation is here.