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Matthew Desmond: Poverty, by America

Pulitzer Prize–winning author and sociologist Matthew Desmond 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 his new book, Poverty: by America, Desmond shows how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor, exploiting them and driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. It is, Desmond argues, a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least.

Desmond will speak at NYPL about his new ways of thinking around this morally urgent, uniquely American problem—and imagining practical, achievable solutions for making poverty disappear.











When: Mon., May. 1, 2023 at 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author and sociologist Matthew Desmond 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 his new book, Poverty: by America, Desmond shows how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor, exploiting them and driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. It is, Desmond argues, a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least.

Desmond will speak at NYPL about his new ways of thinking around this morally urgent, uniquely American problem—and imagining practical, achievable solutions for making poverty disappear.

Buy tickets/get more info now