H. Luke Shaefer

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists-from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention." (The New York Times) Jessica Compton's family of four would have no income if she didn't donate plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter, Brianna, in Chicago, often have no food but...