$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

“A remarkable book that could very well change the way we take into accounts poverty in america.” — New York Times Book Review

“Powerful . . . Presents a deeply moving human face that brings the stunning numbers to life. It is an explosive book . . . The stories will make you indignant and break your heart.” — American Prospect 
 

Jessica Compton’s circle of relatives of four would don’t have any source of revenue if she didn’t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, frequently don’t have any food but spoiled milk on weekends.

After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t seen before — households surviving on virtually no cash source of revenue. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the choice of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million households, including about three million children.

Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Through this book’s eye-opening analysis and lots of compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on source of revenue inequality.
 
“Harrowing . . . [An] important and heart-rending book, in the tradition of Michael Harrington’s The Other The usa.” — Los Angeles Times

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