#  Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day 

 



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 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****](http://www.twodollarsaday.com/)  
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2015.

 [100 Notable Books of 2015](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2015.html)  
*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*](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/11/11/authors-discuss-extreme-poverty/)



 

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**ORGANIZED BY**

[Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener)

**CO-SPONSORED BY**

[Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy](/)



 

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...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](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/2-00-a-day-by-kathryn-j-edin-and-h-luke-shaefer.html)