$144 A Month: Life in the Safety Net
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 1993.
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Softcover. First edition. Oblong quarto. Flexible wrappers. Fine. Written in 1983, when it was published in the *Chicago Reader*. The story of low income people living on a welfare program that provided them with $144 a month, with the individual narratives accompanied by four splendid photographic portraits by Tappin reproduced by duotone lithography. One of 200 numbered copies. An arresting and beautiful book on a poignant subject.
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