Living on Almost Nothing

Cover from Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer's new book published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 1, 2015.  (240 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0544303188).  Edin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Shaefer, associate professor of social work at University of Michigan.

H/T Zaid Jilani (twitter) of AlterNet via Appalachian Studies scholar Herbert Reid.

A conversation with the authors on September 9 live broadcast from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM (EDT) at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Lannan awards for cultural freedom and diversity

Photo of Malcolm Margolin from the Yosemite Association when he is a member of the Boad of Trustees.

According to the December 4 East Bay Express,


Berkeley publisher Malcolm Margolin who founded Heyday Books in 1974, which focuses on California history and the environment, is one of five Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award winner

to recognize individuals working on behalf of communities struggling to uphold and defend their right to cultural freedom and diversity....Cultural Freedom is a basic human right dependent on political, economic, and environmental justice.

The other winners are:

• anti-pollution activist Bradley Angel, who worked as an advisor to the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance to prevent a nuke dump
  
• anti-domestic-violence activist Esther Chávez-Cano
• undocumented-immigrant-rights activist Isabel García, who works to change border polices; and
• lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, of Reprieve, who represents Guantánamo Bay prisoners.