$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Kathryn Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
$13.00Product Description
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.
Additional Information
| Print length | 240 pages |
|---|---|
| Publication date | September 13, 2016 |
| ISBN-10 | 054481195X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0544811959 |
