Poverty, by America -- Matthew Desmond - Paperback

Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS' TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Public Library, Esquire, She Reads, Library Journal "Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch."--The New Yorker Longlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award - Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal Book and Mortar Record Store Poverty, by America -- Matthew Desmond #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. ONE OF THE CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS' TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Public Library, Esquire, She Reads, Library Journal "Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch."--The New Yorker Longlisted for the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award - Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow. Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom. Author: Matthew Desmond Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY) Published: 03/26/2024 Pages: 320 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.51lbs Size: 7.99h x 5.26w x 0.76d ISBN: 9780593239933 About the Author Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, 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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Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Politics & Social Sciences,Social Sciences,Poverty

Label: Crown

Artist: Desmond, Matthew

Album: Poverty, by America

Book Title: Poverty, by America

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

Item Height: 0.7 in

Publication Year: 2024

Topic: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Poverty & Homelessness, Public Policy / Social Policy

Genre: Political Science, Social Science

Item Weight: 7.8 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: Matthew Desmond

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback