{"product_id":"9780544811959","title":"$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists\u003c\/b\u003e 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 Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eAfter 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. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eWhere do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? Edin has “turned sociology upside down” (\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e) with her procurement of rich — and truthful — interviews. Through the book’s many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThe authors illuminate a troubling trend: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America’s extreme poor. More than a powerful exposé, \u003ci\u003e$2.00 a Day \u003c\/i\u003edelivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026090934512,"sku":"9780544811959","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544811959_p0.jpg?v=1763712586","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544811959","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}