Poverty\, by America is available for check out at the Marilyn J. Praisner Library. It is also available in Libby as an audioboo k.
\n\nSummary:
\nThe Pulitzer Prize-winning\, best selling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty\, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States\, the richest country on earth\, ha s more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic nec essities\, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets\, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? In this landmark book \, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history\, research\, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowing ly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit t he poor\, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housi ng and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our w ealth over the alleviation of poverty\, designing a welfare state that giv es the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in e xclusive communities\, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside tho se of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may g row. Elegantly written and fiercely argued\, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious cas e 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 sh ared prosperity and\, at last\, true freedom.
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