Poverty, by America

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2023-03-21
Publisher(s): Crown
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Summary

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a sweeping argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

Author Biography

Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of Princeton's Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

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