Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day

Four of the nation's leading poverty scholars delve into an important new book that reveals the hidden landscape of deep poverty in America.

Kathryn J. Edin
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

H. Luke Shaefer
Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan.

With discussion from

David T. Ellwood
Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.

William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.

About the book

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2015.

100 Notable Books of 2015
The New York Times Book Review

A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event
November 10, 2015, at Harvard Kennedy School

Read coverage in the Harvard Crimson

ORGANIZED BY

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

CO-SPONSORED BY

Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy

...A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about extreme poverty in the United States. This essential book is a call to action, and one hopes it will accomplish what Michael Harrington’s “The Other America” achieved in the 1960's — arousing both the nation’s consciousness and conscience about the plight of a growing number of invisible citizens. — William Julius Wilson The New York Times Book Review

...A remarkable book that could very well change the way we think about extreme poverty in the United States.

This essential book is a call to action, and one hopes it will accomplish what Michael Harrington’s “The Other America” achieved in the 1960's — arousing both the nation’s consciousness and conscience about the plight of a growing number of invisible citizens.

— William Julius Wilson
The New York Times Book Review