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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. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America’s most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there.

This revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep Sout

The Injustice of Place

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    A Hardback by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 8 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9780063239494
      978-0063239494
      ISBN-10 0063239493

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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. Based on a fresh, data-driven approach, they discover that America’s most disadvantaged communities are not the big cities that get the most notice. Instead, nearly all are rural. Little if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there.

      This revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep Sout

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