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How many Americans live on $2 a day? The biggest debate in poverty research, explained.

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“How many people in America live on less than $2 a day? That seems like it ought to be a simple question to answer. And for much of the last decade, Princeton sociologist Kathryn Edin and University of Michigan social policy researcher Luke Shaefer have been using survey data to argue that a significant and rising share of American children live in households earning less than $2 in cash income per person”

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