Some 50 million people in the United States live in poverty today—and over 108 million people survive on less than $55,000 a…
Matthew Desmond
“Poverty, by America”: Author Matthew Desmond on How U.S. Punishes the Poor & Subsidizes the Wealthy
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Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by…