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SUMMARY:Solidarity Stories: Community Led Book Discussion
LOCATION:Administrative Offices\n<p>Limited parking is available via the g
 arage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program par
 ticipants and no purchase is required\, but participants are welcome to or
 der snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more infor
 mation\, visit their website: https://mixtfoodhall.com.</p>
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 lable via the garage on 39th Street and Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free 
 for program participants and no purchase is required\, but participants ar
 e welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, or dinner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors.
  For more information\, visit their website: https://mixtfoodhall.com.</p>
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DESCRIPTION:Join a lively discussion! This month the Mount Rainier Library
  and the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights are discussing "Pov
 erty\, By America\," by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Matthew Desmond. \n.
 \nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/event/10342701
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The United States\, the richest country on
  earth\, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does
  this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go withou
 t basic necessities\, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the
  streets\, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this la
 ndmark book\, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history\, res
 earch\, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly an
 d unknowingly keep poor people poor. Elegantly written and fiercely argued
 \, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally u
 rgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startl
 ingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all t
 o become poverty abolitionists\, engaged in a politics of collective belon
 ging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and\, at last\, true freed
 om. -From the Publisher</p>\n<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/front
 end-images/editor/pgcmls/PovertyByAmerica.jpg" width="308" height="466" al
 t="" style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" /><
 /p>\n<p>Find a copy of the book in our collection: <a href="https://catalo
 g.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=3&amp\;c
 n=1421700">Book</a>&nbsp\;| <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/s
 earch/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&amp\;pos=1&amp\;cn=1422432">Ebook</a> | 
 <a href="https://catalog.pgcmls.info/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.
 0.0.3&amp\;pos=2&amp\;cn=1423301">Eaudiobook</a></p>\n<p>Venue information
 : Solidarity Stories: Community - Led Book Discussion takes place the 3rd 
 Tuesday of each month in the upstairs lounge area of Mixt Food Hall in Bre
 ntwood\, MD. Limited parking is available via the garage on 39th Street an
 d Rhode Island Ave. Parking is free for program participants and no purcha
 se is required\, but participants are welcome to order snacks\, drinks\, o
 r dinner from Mixt&rsquo\;s vendors. For more information\, visit their we
 bsite: https://mixtfoodhall.com.</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://pgcmls.libnet.info/
 event/10342701
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