![]() “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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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