$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

AÂ revelatory accountÂ of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, donâ‚¬t think it exists

Jessica Comptonâ‚¬s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee.Â Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.Â
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After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadnâ‚¬t seen since the mid-1990s â‚¬" households surviving on virtually no income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children.Â
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Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has â‚¬Å“turned sociology upside downâ‚¬Â (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich â‚¬" and truthful â‚¬" interviews.Â Through the bookâ‚¬s many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge.Â
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The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hiddenÂ landscape ofÂ survival strategies among Americaâ‚¬s extreme poor.Â More than a powerful exposÂ©, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.Â
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Country USA
Manufacturer Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9780544303188
ReleaseDate 2015-09-01

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binding	Hardcover
EANs	9780544303188
ReleaseDate	2015-09-01

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

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