In his latest book Poverty, by America, Desmond encourages us all to be poverty abolitionists: to actively support and encourage policies, programs and mindsets that diminish poverty in the United States. Now, with his trademark blend of investigative journalism and academic rigor, Desmond turns to a much broader topic related to his previous work: poverty. Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist Matthew Desmond’s work on evictions in the United States openened our eyes to life’s daily horrors for many Americans living at or below the poverty line when he visited the John Adams in 2018. Instead, it’s a book about how some lives are made small so that others may grow.” “Are we-we the secure, the insured, the housed, the college educ ated, the lucky-connected to all this needless suffering? This is a book about poverty that is not just about the poor.
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