$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

<DIV><B>A <I>New York Times</I> Notable Book of the Year</B><BR /><BR /><B>“A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about poverty in the United States.” — <I>New York Times Book Review</I></B><BR /><BR /><B>“Powerful . . . 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.” — <I>American Prospect</I> <BR />  </B><BR /> Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’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.<BR /><BR /> After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t seen before — 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.<BR /><BR /> Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Through this book’s eye-opening analysis and many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. <I>$2.00 a Day</I> delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.<BR />  <BR /><B>“Harrowing . . . [An] important and heart-rending book, in the tradition of Michael Harrington’s <I>The Other America.</I>” — <I>Los Angeles Times</I></B></DIV>