![]() ![]() ![]() I had devoted most of my adult life to trying to understand poverty – living in poor communities, working with organizers – but I didn’t feel like I had a clear and convincing answer to why there was so much poverty in this incredibly rich nation. What made you decide to focus more generally on poverty? “I don’t want to treat it I want to cure it.” “I want to end poverty, not reduce it,” he told Monitor contributor Barbara Spindel. ![]() Desmond calls on readers to consider their moral responsibilities to others, in service of an ambitious aim. The author makes the discomfiting argument that better-off Americans benefit, whether knowingly or unknowingly, from the impoverishment of their fellow citizens. His clearheaded but impassioned follow-up, “Poverty, by America,” examines the stubborn persistence of destitution in the wealthiest country in the world. In his powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 book “Evicted,” sociologist Matthew Desmond followed eight Milwaukee families facing the loss of their homes. ![]()
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