$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists

Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her …

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