<div><b>A&nbsp;revelatory account&nbsp;of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists</b><br><br>Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee.&nbsp;Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<div>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.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<div>Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has “turned sociology upside down” (<i>Mother Jones</i>) with her procurement of rich — and truthful — interviews.&nbsp;Through the book’s many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;&nbsp;<div>The authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden&nbsp;landscape of&nbsp;survival strategies among America’s extreme poor.&nbsp;More than a powerful exposé,<i>$2.00 a Day </i>delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;<div>&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>