Over A Million US Families Are Living On A Shocking $2 Per Day Noelia de la Cruz Febuary 24,2012More than 1.46 million families in the U.S. are living on $2 or less per day, a new study found. That's up from the 636,000 households who lived under the same conditions in 1996. Two dollars or less per day translates to about $60 per person, per month. While 43 percent of American households receive government benefits, a decreasing proportion of those benefits go to the poor, the researchers from University of Michigan and Harvard University, said. The study based its definition...