Timothy J. Nelson

Aug 8, 2023 | shorturl.at | Kathryn Edin |H. Luke Shaefer |Timothy J. Nelson |Janina Edwards

A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. “This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted) Three of the nation’s top scholars ­– known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places.