Living on $2 a Day in America

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 23, 2015

One and a half million American families live on just $2.00 per person, per day. That includes about 3 million children. In $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, H. Luke Shaefer and co-author Kathryn Edin look into the current state of American poverty. Shaefer discusses their findings and what we can be doing to help lift people out of poverty.

EVENT: Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer will be speaking on Thursday, September 24, at 6:00 PM at the Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper Square 2nd floor, New York, NY 10003.

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