I’m Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton and author of Evicted and Poverty, by America. Ask me anything about poverty, public policy, the housing crisis … or, you know, anything. : books
UPDATE:I've gotta run! Thank you so much for joining me today! It was great to connect with you all. To learn more about how you can join the fight and get access to resources, please visit endpovertyusa.org. And if you’d like to learn more about POVERTY, BY AMERICA and EVICTED, please visit matthewdesmondbooks.com. My previous book, https://matthewdesmondbooks.com/#evicted helped to spark a public conversation about the housing crisis and motivate new policy solutions. But poverty in America is bigger than the housing crisis. We are the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In my latest book, https://matthewdesmondbooks.com/ POVERTY, BY AMERICA, I lay out why there is so much poverty in this land of dollars and make a case for how to eliminate it. This book attempts to reimagine the debate on poverty, making a new argument about why it persists in America: because some lives are made small so that others may grow. Ending poverty in America—trul
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