Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:00 PM PDT
A person living on $2 a day conjures images of late-night TV
commercials with a teary actress seeking donations for people living in a
third-world hovel. But there are 1.5 million households in the United
States whose members are living—barely—on that tiny sum. Kathryn J. Edin
and H. Luke Shaefer point out in their book, $2.00 a Day: Living on
Almost Nothing in America, that far from Ronald Reagan's fictional
"welfare queen," there are a significant number of people in America who
receive no benefits, have no job and are hanging on with virtually no
income.
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