Matthew Desmond
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Matthew Desmond

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Matthew Desmond is social scientist and urban ethnographer. He is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He is also a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine. Desmond is the author of over fifty academic studies and several books, including "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. "Evicted" was listed as one of the Best Books of 2016 by The New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, National Public Radio, and several other outlets. It has been named one of the Best 50 Nonfiction Books of the Last 100 Years and was included in the 100 Best Social Policy Books of All Time. Desmond's research and reporting focuses on American poverty and public policy. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society. He has been listed among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”
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Interview: Matthew Desmond Says We Know How to End Poverty, So What Are We Waiting For?

Poverty, by America
'How do all those things contribute to the perpetuation of poverty?'
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Poverty, by America is a groundbreaking exploration of why poverty persists in the world's wealthiest nation. Published in 2023, this New York Times bestseller offers a provocative thesis: affluent Americans unknowingly perpetuate poverty through their financial choices and support of policies that prioritize their own wealth over poverty alleviation.

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
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    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
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