$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America

Author and sociology professor Kathryn Edin noticed households scraping by on virtually no cash income after two decades of research on American poverty. She teamed with Luke Shaefer to discover that 1.5 million American households, including about 3 million children, live on $2.00 per person, per day.

This important exposé illuminates troubling trends: a low-wage labor market that fails to provide a living wage, and a growing landscape of survival strategies among the extreme poor. Through eye-opening findings and stories of Americans fighting against impossible odds, $2.00 a Day offers new evidence and ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

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