《紐約時報》年度傑出圖書
這個故事講述了美國的一種貧窮現象，這種貧窮現像如此嚴重，以至於我們作為一個國家，甚至認為它不存在——來自一位「打破常規」的全國頂尖貧窮專家。 （《紐約時報》）
如果傑西卡康普頓不每週兩次到田納西州當地的捐獻中心捐獻血漿，她一家四口就沒有收入。住在芝加哥的莫多娜哈里斯和她十幾歲的女兒布里安娜週末經常沒有食物，只有變質的牛奶。
經過二十年對美國貧窮問題的深入研究，凱瑟琳·埃丁注意到了她以前從未見過的現象——家庭幾乎沒有現金收入就能生存。艾丁與貧困人口收入計算專家盧克·謝弗 (Luke Shaefer) 合作發現，每天人均生活費為 2 美元的美國家庭數量達 150 萬戶，其中包括約 300 萬名兒童。這些家庭住在哪裡？他們怎麼會變得如此貧困？
透過本書令人大開眼界的分析和許多引人注目的描述，令人感動和震驚的答案浮現出來。 《每天 2.00 美元》為我們關於收入不平等的全國性辯論提供了啟發性的想法。
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists—from a leading national poverty expert who “defies convention.” (The New York Times)
Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no income if she didn’t donate 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 before—households surviving on virtually no cash income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to discover that the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, was one and a half million households, including about three million children. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor?
Through this book’s eye-opening analysis and many compelling profiles, moving and startling answers emerge. $2.00 a Day delivers provocative ideas to our national debate on income inequality.
“Powerful . . . Presents a deeply moving human face that brings the stunning numbers to life. It is an explosive book . . . The stories will make you angry and break your heart.”—American Prospect
“Harrowing . . . [An] important and heart-rending book, in the tradition of Michael Harrington’s The Other America.”—Los Angeles Times
