$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America

Edin, Kathryn 1962- (Author). Shaefer, H. Luke, (Author).

Summary: Jessica Compton's family of four would have no income if she didn't sell her plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, have gone for days with nothing to eat but spoiled milk. After two decades of 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 surveys of the 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. $2.00 a day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

Record details

ISBN: 054481195X
ISBN: 9780544811959
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 210 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: First Mariner Books edition.
Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Welfare Is Dead -- Perilous Work -- A Room of One's Own -- By Any Means Necessary -- A World Apart -- Where, Then, From Here?