$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin

210 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced

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A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists 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. Modonna Ha...

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