Subject: Campus Event on Extreme Poverty in America
From: Campus Broadcast <[email-masked]>
To: Campus Broadcast <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:45:17 +0000

Dear Georgetown Law students, faculty, and staff:

On behalf of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality<http://cbpp.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fcb519d4a06d032e8e2bbf63f&id=748a8414a9&e=f29fcf2e04> and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)<http://cbpp.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fcb519d4a06d032e8e2bbf63f&id=e8d83a1fe6&e=f29fcf2e04>, you are invited to attend a conversation with Kathy Edin and Luke Shaefer about their new book, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America<http://www.twodollarsaday.com/> on Wednesday, September 9th from 9:30am to 11:30am (breakfast and book signing with authors at 8:45am) at the 12th Floor of the Gewirz Student Center.

Additional speakers include:

*         U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio);

*         Cecilia Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council;

*         Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author of Nickel and Dimed;

*         Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; and

*         Aparna Mathur, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

To attend, please RSVP here<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/200-a-day-living-on-almost-nothing-in-americaa-conversation-with-authors-kathy-edin-and-luke-shaefer-tickets-18021471707> (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/200-a-day-living-on-almost-nothing-in-americaa-conversation-with-authors-kathy-edin-and-luke-shaefer-tickets-18021471707).

Thank you,

Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality

Event Details

When: September 9th

Breakfast and Book Signing with Authors, 8:45am - 9:30am

Main Event, 9:30am - 11:30am

Where: Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor (Georgetown University Law Center)

$2.00 a Day combines quantitative data analysis with in-depth qualitative research on families living on incomes as low as that amount, providing a devastating account of what it's like to live in such extreme poverty in America.

Copies of the book will be available for sale.