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“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”
~The New Yorker~ The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages?
Matthew Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom. Ana Cabeszas will lead the discussion on Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America.
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