Common Read Keynote and Q&A: Kathryn J. Edin
Join us for a special event on Tuesday, October 25th at 7:00PM in Shriver Hall as Kathryn Edin, author of this year's Common Read, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, will be giving a talk about her book followed by Q&A. This event is free and open to the JHU community. The Common Read program is sponsored by the Parents Fund.
Edin's book, $2.00 a Day, is an inside look at American households surviving on virtually no cash income ($2.00 per person, per day), which totals approximately 1.5 million households, including 3 million children. Kathryn Edin and her co-author, Luke Shaefer, delving through the book's many compelling profiles, emerged with starting answers: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. Not just a powerful expose, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.
Dr. Edin is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also the faculty director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative. She has previously taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Dr. Edin is a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and a past member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. In 2014 Dr. Edin became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, Tim, and two daughters, Kaitlin and Marisa.
Join us for a special event on Tuesday, October 25th at 7:00PM in Shriver Hall as Kathryn Edin, author of this year's Common Read, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, will be giving a talk about her book followed by Q&A. This event is free and open to the JHU community. The Common Read program is sponsored by the Parents Fund.
Edin's book, $2.00 a Day, is an inside look at American households surviving on virtually no cash income ($2.00 per person, per day), which totals approximately 1.5 million households, including 3 million children. Kathryn Edin and her co-author, Luke Shaefer, delving through the book's many compelling profiles, emerged with starting answers: a low-wage labor market that increasingly fails to deliver a living wage, and a growing but hidden landscape of survival strategies among America's extreme poor. Not just a powerful expose, $2.00 a Day delivers new evidence and new ideas to our national debate on income inequality.
Dr. Edin is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also the faculty director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative. She has previously taught at Rutgers University, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Dr. Edin is a Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a founding member of the MacArthur Foundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and a past member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. In 2014 Dr. Edin became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, Tim, and two daughters, Kaitlin and Marisa.