#  Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 10, 2015** 

 06:30PM - 07:30PM EST 

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 **Harvard Kennedy School: Malcolm Wiener Auditorium, Taubman G-1**  



 

 



 

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**Kathryn J. Edin**, *Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University,* and **H. Luke Shaefer**, *Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy, University of Michigan*.

With discussion by **David T. Ellwood**, *Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School,* and **William Julius Wilson**, *Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University.*

**A Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy event**  
Co-sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy.

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Join us...

  
...as four of the nation's leading poverty scholars come together to delve into the important and compelling new book, **[$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America](http://www.twodollarsaday.com/),** by Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer.

> *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)

  
  
**For more information about this event** [Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy ▶](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener)  
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