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Poverty, by America

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Sometimes complex problems need to be broken down before we really get them. Matthew Desmond's editor challenged him to write about one of America's greatest problems as if he was just chatting with a friend. This is an urgent, accessible call to action from a Pulitzer Prize winning, MacArthur genius grant recipient.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Public Library, Esquire, California Review of Books, She Reads, Library Journal

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