<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shaefer, H. Luke</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Edin, Kathryn</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Talbert, Elizabeth</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Understanding the Dynamics of $2-a-Day Poverty in the United States</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015-11-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">120-138</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.07</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shaefer and Edin (2013) have found a large rise in “extreme poverty”—defined as cash income of no more than $2 per person per day, for a month or calendar quarter—among U.S. households with children between 1996 and 2011. This article explores some underlying dynamics of this phenomenon, referred to here as “$2-a-day poverty,” presenting evidence from both qualitative fieldwork and quantitative analysis of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The rise in $2-a-day poverty has been concentrated among children experiencing it chronically—that is, for seven or more months during a calendar year. Both qualitative and quantitative evidence find that a large majority of children experiencing $2-a-day poverty live in households where an adult worked during the year, while only a small proportion live in households accessing TANF. Finally, households experiencing $2-a-day poverty appear to be more likely to face material hardships than other low-income households.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>