Living On '$2.00 A Day' - Author Explains How The Extreme Poor Survive

When Kathryn Edin was studying poverty in the U.S., she and Luke Schaefer made a startling discovery - the number of households in the U.S. living on just $2.00 a day had skyrocketed in the past two decades. The pair authored the 2016 book ' $2.00 A Day:

An episode of the BPR News Extended podcast, hosted by Matt Bush, titled "Living On '$2.00 A Day' - Author Explains How The Extreme Poor Survive" was published on October 4, 2018 and runs 16 minutes.

October 4, 2018 ·16m · BPR News Extended

Summary

When Kathryn Edin was studying poverty in the U.S., she and Luke Schaefer made a startling discovery - the number of households in the U.S. living on just $2.00 a day had skyrocketed in the past two decades. The pair authored the 2016 book ' $2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America' which chronicles their research into why extreme poverty has risen so much in America. At the time of the book's release, they estimated 1.5 million households in America qualify as extremely poor, and that 3

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