Extreme Poverty in the U.S.

Kathryn Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, and H. Luke Shaefer, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, examine the plight of households surviving on practically no cash income in "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.” They're joined by William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University, and David T. Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy, both of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

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Blood donation is a huge multi-billion dollar for-profit business including the volunteer blood drives that seem charitable. Disturbing that our nation's poorest are stoking the coffers of this industry.