In the prologue to his latest book, Matthew Desmond bluntly assesses who we are in the United States, “the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy.” Desmond, the ...
Sociologist: Ending US poverty is doable but requires 'each of us' to 'become poverty abolitionists'
Why, asks Matthew Desmond — the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Poverty, By America" (Crown) and a professor of sociology at Princeton University — is there so much destitution in America? Desmond — ...
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with sociologist Matthew Desmond about his new book, "Poverty, by America." He says poverty persists in the U.S. because the rest of our society benefits from it. Why does a ...
David Brooks had an interesting article in Tuesday’s New York Times about the different approaches taken by John Edwards and Barack Obama when it comes to the issue of poverty. Brooks is an astute ...
Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...
Why does America – the richest country in the world – have so much poverty? Matthew Desmond says its because so many of us benefit from it. “If you really look at the full nature of the welfare state, ...
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