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Poverty, by America

  • Matthew Desmond
2023
Crown Publishing Group

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Featured Excerpts

  • Illustration of someone walking up stairs made up of the working class.
    Book Review

    How the War on Poverty Stalled

    The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?
    by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on August 28, 2023
  • A man and a dog walk among blighted buildings in the Bronx.
    Book Review

    The Persistence of American Poverty

    “We could afford to end poverty,” Matthew Desmond tells us. That we don’t is a choice.
    by Marcia Chatelain via The Nation on August 21, 2023
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