Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott: Poverty, by America

17/10/2023 47 min
Matthew Desmond and Andrea Elliott: Poverty, by America

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond's latest book, Poverty, by America, reimagines the American debate on poverty, making an original and ambitious argument about why it persists here: because too many of us benefit from it. In this episode of Library Talks, Desmond speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot to discuss his new ways of thinking around this morally urgent, uniquely American problem—and imagines practical, achievable solutions for making poverty disappear.