$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

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.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

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 Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in Chicago often have no food but spoiled milk on weekends.   After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t seen since the mid-1990s — h

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ABC News Nightline America’s Working Poor

ABC News tells the story of Chris Merchant, who makes .50 an hour at an herb-packing plant. His fiance Eryn makes about a week as a baby-sitter, when she’s not taking care of their own two boys, aged one and three. The pair’s combined household income amounts to ,000 a year — below the federal poverty line. Even with housing assistance, Medicaid for the kids, and occasional help from a social services agency, the Merchants live with the fear of becoming destitute. They talk about a sen

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