Three of the nation&rsquo\;s top scholars \;&ndash\; known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America & ndash\; turn their attention from the country&rsquo\;s poorest people to i ts poorest places. Based on a fresh\, data-driven approach\, they discover that \;America&rsquo\;s most disadvantaged communities are not the bi g cities that get the most notice. Instead\, nearly all are rural. \;L ittle if any attention has been paid to these places or to the people who make their lives there.
\nThis revelation set in motion a five-year journey across Appalachia\, the Cotton and Tobacco Belts of the Deep South \, and South Texas. \;Immersing themselves in these communities\, pori ng over centuries of local history\, attending parades and festivals\, the authors trace the legacies of the deepest poverty in America&mdash\;inclu ding inequalities shaping people&rsquo\;s health\, livelihoods\, and upwar d social mobility for families. Wrung dry by powerful forces and corrupt g overnment officials\, the &ldquo\;internal colonies&rdquo\; in these regio ns were exploited for their resources and then left to collapse. \;
\nThe unfolding revelation in \;The Injustice of Place \;is no t about what sets these places apart\, but about what they have in common& mdash\;a history of raw\, intensive resource extraction and human exploita tion. This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitm ent to wage a new War on Poverty\, with the unrelenting focus on our natio n&rsquo\;s places of deepest need. \; \;
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Kathryn Edin \;is the William Churc h Osborne Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton Universit y\, where she serves as the Director of the Center on Research and Child W ellbeing. Edin&rsquo\;s research has taken on key mysteries about poverty that have not been fully answered by prior research: How do single mothers possibly survive on welfare? Why don&rsquo\;t more go to work? Why do the y end up as single mothers in the first place? Where are the fathers and w hy do they disengage from their children&rsquo\;s lives? How have the live s of the single mothers changed as a result of welfare reform? The hallmar k of her research is her direct\, in-depth observations of the lives of lo w-income women\, men\, and children. After a career of studying some of Am erica&rsquo\;s most disadvantaged people\, she has now turned her attentio n to America&rsquo\;s most disadvantaged places\, blending big data analys is\, ethnography\, and historical analysis to uncover the legacies of pove rty in America. She is the author of 9 books\, including the forthcoming " The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the legacies of Poverty in America\," c o-authored with H. Luke Shaefer and Timothy Nelson\, and "$2 a Day: Living on Virtually Nothing in America\," co-authored with H. Luke Shaefer. It w as included in \;The \;New York Times \;100 Notable Books of 2 015\, cited as &ldquo\;essential reporting about the rise in destitute fam ilies.&rdquo\;
\nH. Luke Shaefer\, Ph.D. \;is the Hermann and Am alie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy and Professor of P ublic Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the Universi ty of Michigan. At U-M\, he is also the inaugural director of Poverty Solu tions\, an interdisciplinary\, presidential initiative that partners with communities and policymakers to find new ways to prevent and alleviate pov erty. Through Poverty Solutions\, Shaefer acted as a special counselor on anti-poverty policy to the director of the Michigan Department of Health a nd Human Services from 2019-2021.
\nShaefer is one of the nation&rsq uo\;s leading scholars of poverty and social welfare policy. His research has been published in top peer-reviewed academic journals in the fields of public policy\, public health\, health services research\, sociology\, so cial work\, and history\, and his work has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation\, and U.S. Cens us Bureau among other sources. He has presented his research at the White House and before numerous federal agencies\, has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee\, and has advised a number of the nation&rsquo\; s largest human service providers.
\nHis work has been cited in medi a outlets such as the \;New York Times\, \;Washington Post\, \ ;The Economist\, \;and \;The Atlantic\, and he has been featured o n such programs as PBS \;NewsHour\, \;Marketplace\, 1A\, The World \, \;and CNBC&rsquo\;s \;Nightly Business Report. The \;New Yo rk Times \;and \;TIME Magazine\, among other outlets\, have credit ed Shaefer&rsquo\;s research as one of the driving forces behind the expan ded Child Tax Credit of 2021 that led to a historic decline in child pover ty\, pushing it to its lowest level on record. His book with Kathryn Edin\ , "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America\," was named one of th e 100 Notable Books of 2015 by the \;New York Times Book Review\, and won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism among other awards. He was recen tly awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
\nShaefer received his B. A. in politics from Oberlin College and A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago\, School of Social Service Administration.
\nTimothy Nel son \;is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and The School of Pub lic and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles on low-income fathers. He is co-author\, with Kathryn E din and Luke Shaefer of "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America." He is co-author\, with Kathryn Edin\, of "Doing the B est I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City \;(2013)."
\nNelson&rsqu o\;s prior research has focused on African American religion and congregat ional studies. \; His first book\, "Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Reli gious Experience and Ritual in an African American Congregation" was publi shed by NYU Press in 2004. Nelson received his PhD in sociology from the U niversity of Chicago in 1997 and has taught at Johns Hopkins\, Harvard\, N orthwestern\, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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