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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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Kathryn Edin
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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