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Matthew desmond new book6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas. Poverty, by America, is scheduled for publication on March 21, 2023. Are we-we the secure, the insured, the housed, the college educated, the lucky-somehow responsible for all this suffering?” ![]() In a statement to the AP, Desmond said, “To understand the causes of poverty, we must hold a mirror up to ourselves. ![]() “The well-off exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit.” In Poverty, by America, Desmond “argues that affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly work to keep poor people poor,” Crown says. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus called it a “stunning, remarkable book” that “demands a wide audience.” Evicted, which follows several families in Milwaukee dealing with housing troubles, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Three years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic struck the United States, and the economy sputtered in the direction of collapse. It’s the first book by Desmond since Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City was published in 2016. in a new book coming next year, the Associated Press reports.Ĭrown will publish Desmond’s Poverty, by America, which it says “reimagines the debate on poverty, making a sweeping argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.” Evicted author Matthew Desmond will tackle the issue of poverty in the U.S. El-Mohtar, who is also the New York Times Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist, called me on the phone from her home in Ottawa, Ontario, to talk about unexpected virality, the. ![]()
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