2017 Read – $2.00 A Day – Kern County Library

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About the Book

A revelatory account of a kind of poverty so extreme, and so often hidden, most Americans don’t think it exists. Kathryn Edin teamed up with Luke Shaefer to make a surprising discovery: the number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million American households, including three million children. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? What do they do to survive? Not just a powerful exposé, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.

Save the Date

Author Visit & Book Signing with Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer
November 1, 2017 at the CSUB Icardo Center

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Check out the entire calendar of One Book Project Events, including book discussions, family storytimes, & more!

Further Reading Resources

Interested in reading more and delving further into this year’s One Book? Check out these resources, including books, DVDs, and online links.

Group Discussion Guide for the Book
The Persistence of Poverty in New York City, A Three-Year Perspective from the Poverty Tracker
Poverty Risk Tracker, Tools for Understanding American Inequality
“Impossible Choices: Teens and Food Insecurity in America,” Urban Institute
$2.00 A Day Q & A
“What is the Evidence of Worsening Conditions Among America’s Poorest Families with Children?,” by H. Luke Shaefer & Kathryn J. Edin
“How Much Do Poor Americans Work? A Comparative Analysis,” by Analidis Ochoa-Bendana, MPP
“A Top Priority to Address Poverty: Strengthening the Child Tax Credit for Very Poor Young Children,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
“Repairing the Kansas Safety Net,” Kansas Action for Children
“Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World’s Poorest Countries?,” by H. Luke Shaefer, Pinghui Wu, & Kathryn Edin
“Understanding ‘$2.00 A Day’ Poverty: An Explanation for Robert Doar,” by Peter Germanis
“Sampling the Extreme Poor: Notes from a Systemic and Venue-Based Study,” The Poverty & Inequality Research Lab
“Evidence of Employment Losses After Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike? A Cautionary Note About the Use of Data,” by Reid Wilson & H. Luke Shaefer
“Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States,” The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
“What is the Evidence of Worsening Conditions Among America’s Poorest Families with Children?,” by H. Luke Shaefer & Kathryn J. Edin
Is Welfare Helping Poor Children? Access your state’s ratio.
CSU’s Expository Reading and Writing Course

Community Partners

California State University, Bakersfield  •  Bakersfield College   •  Barnes & Noble
Kern High School District  •  Russo’s Books  •  Kern County Superintendent of Schools
Taft College  •  Sierra Club  •  Emmanuel Lutheran Church  •  Kern Literacy Council
Repair Cafe  •  Rosewood Senior Living  •  Community Action Partnership of Kern
KIT Community  •  Wallace Middle School  •  First 5 Kern  •  United Way of Kern County
Bike Bakersfield  •  Employers’ Training Resource / America’s Job Center of California
Norman Levan Center for the Humanities

Special Thanks to Bakersfield College, Bakersfield Homeless Center, Golden Empire Transit, Kern Community Foundation, Kern County Supervisor David Couch – 4th District, Kern Golden Empire Television, The Mission at Kern County, Stewards Inc., & The California Endowment.