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xxiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm

"A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated 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 hadn't seen since the mid-1990s -- 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. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has "turned sociology upside down" (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich -- and truthful -- interviews. Through the book's many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. More than a powerful expose, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality. "--

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-199) and index

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 - SOCIAL SCIENCE - 210 pages

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A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists

Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated 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 hadn't seen since the mid-1990s -- 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. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has "turned sociology upside down" (Mother Jones) with her procurement of rich -- and truthful -- interviews. Through the book's many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. More than a powerful exposé, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

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A revelatory account of a kind of poverty so extreme, and so often hidden, most Americans don’t think it exists. Kathryn Edin teamed up with Luke Shaefer to make a surprising discovery: the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million American households, including three million children. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? What do they do to survive? Not just a powerful exposé, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

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Author Visit & Book Signing with Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
November 1, 2017 at the CSUB Icardo Center

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Group Discussion Guide for the Book
The Persistence of Poverty in New York City, A Three-Year Perspective from the Poverty Tracker
Poverty Risk Tracker, Tools for Understanding American Inequality
“Impossible Choices: Teens and Food Insecurity in America,” Urban Institute
$2.00 A Day Q & A
“What is the Evidence of Worsening Conditions Among America’s Poorest Families with Children?,” by H. Luke Shaefer & Kathryn J. Edin
“How Much Do Poor Americans Work? A Comparative Analysis,” by Analidis Ochoa-Bendana, MPP
“A Top Priority to Address Poverty: Strengthening the Child Tax Credit for Very Poor Young Children,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
“Repairing the Kansas Safety Net,” Kansas Action for Children
“Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World’s Poorest Countries?,” by H. Luke Shaefer, Pinghui Wu, & Kathryn Edin
“Understanding ‘$2.00 A Day’ Poverty: An Explanation for Robert Doar,” by Peter Germanis
“Sampling the Extreme Poor: Notes from a Systemic and Venue-Based Study,” The Poverty & Inequality Research Lab
“Evidence of Employment Losses After Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike? A Cautionary Note About the Use of Data,” by Reid Wilson & H. Luke Shaefer
“Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States,” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
“What is the Evidence of Worsening Conditions Among America’s Poorest Families with Children?,” by H. Luke Shaefer & Kathryn J. Edin
Is Welfare Helping Poor Children? Access your state’s ratio.
CSU’s Expository Reading and Writing Course