$2.00 a Day

<p>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. <em>$2.00 a Day</em> delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.</p>