$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Name: $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Author: Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer
ISBN: 9781518147517

Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

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An 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 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.

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