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Riis has been chronicling the specific amounts that certain tenement-house families earn and spend in a week’s time, as well as weighing the argument that poor families are more likely to remain so because they spend everything they make and fail to save up. Riis prefers to express awe and surprise at how families manage simply to stay afloat at all. Here, though, he also acknowledges the possibility that the critics of the poor are partly correct—but for reasons that similarly deserve compassion. “Wastefulness,” like alcoholism or petty crime, is according to Riis the natural result of living hand-to-mouth: it’s…