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Research ArticleII. Extreme Poverty and Social Suffering
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Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States

H. Luke Shaefer, Kathryn Edin, Elizabeth Talbert
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2015, 1 (1) 120-138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.07
H. Luke Shaefer
aAssociate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
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bBloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Zanvyl Krieger School and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
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Elizabeth Talbert
cDoctoral student in sociology at Johns Hopkins University
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vol. 1 no. 1 120-138
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.07

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 1, 2015.

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Copyright © 2015 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. Luke Shaefer’s time on this research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant no. SES 1131500. The authors thank participants in the 2013 University of Chicago EINet Symposium, “Employment Instability and the Safety Net”; members and staff of the Council of Economic Advisers; session participants at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association; participants at the Russell Sage Foundation conference “Severe Deprivation in America;” and Indi Dutta-Gupta for helpful comments on earlier versions of this work. The opinions and conclusions presented here are solely those of the authors and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policies of the National Science Foundation or any other entity. Direct correspondence to: H. Luke Shaefer at lshaefer{at}umich.edu, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Kathryn Edin at Kathy_edin{at}jhu.edu, Zanvyl Krieger School, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology, 533 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218; and Elizabeth Talbert at etalber2{at}jhu.edu, Zanvyl Krieger School, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology, 533 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. H. Luke Shaefera,
  2. Kathryn Edinb and
  3. Elizabeth Talbertc
  1. aAssociate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
  2. bBloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Zanvyl Krieger School and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University
  3. cDoctoral student in sociology at Johns Hopkins University
  1. Corresponding authors:
    H. Luke Shaefer, (lshaefer{at}umich.edu); Kathryn Edin, (Kathy_edin{at}jhu.edu); Elizabeth Talbert, (etalber2{at}jhu.edu)
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