Now Available in Trade Paperback A sweeping and surprising new understanding of America’s places of most extreme poverty, drawn from original data-driven research, from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America "This book challenges and enrages, humbles and indicts—and forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” — Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted "A powerful, alarming portrayal of how poverty remains entrenched in unfairly forgotten places across America.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "This eye-opening account provides a powerful lens with which to view contemporary inequality in America.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)