$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

â€œA remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States.â€ â€” New York Times Book Review

â€œPowerful . . . Presents a deeply moving human face that brings the stunning numbers to life. It is an explosive book . . . The stories will make you angry and break your heart.â€ â€” American ProspectÂ
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Jessica Comptonâ€™s family of four would have no income if she didnâ€™t donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.

After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadnâ€™t seen before â€” households surviving on virtually no cash 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 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 bookâ€™s eye-opening analysis and many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.
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â€œHarrowing . . . [An] important and heart-rending book, in the tradition of Michael Harringtonâ€™s The Other America.â€ â€” Los Angeles Times
Country USA
Manufacturer Mariner Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-01
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-01
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook

$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

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